Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Mar 2001 14:33:08 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: "mount -o loop" lockup issue |
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On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, J Sloan wrote:
> "Mohammad A. Haque" wrote: > > > David Konerding wrote: > > > > > And this is described in what release notes? It worked just fine on Red Hat 7.0's 2.4 > > > kernel.... oh wait, I see that they fixed it before they released it. > > > > And hmm..gee .. did they bother contributing back the code? > > Based on their track record that's a silly question.
Especially since patches in question had been written by Jens Axboe (who has nothing to RH) and announced (many times) on l-k.
I've fixed several races in Jens' patch and fed them back to him. His patch + these fixes were the only loop-related patches in RH tree[1]. Until fixes got merged into Jens' loop-6 which, in turn, was merged into -ac and into the main tree, that is.
I don't give a flying fsck through the rolling doughnut for "their" track record (whatever "their" means), but I'm somewhat partial to mine. Care to grep through l-k archives, check your facts and STFU? Al
[1] there's also changeloop patch - adds an ioctl for switching the underlying file under opened /dev/loop; API is ugly and thing has so limited use that IMO it should die. Completely unrelated to the problems in question, anyway.
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