Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Oct 2002 16:26:35 -0200 (BRST) | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.20-pre11 /proc/partitions read |
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On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 07:45:14PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > Andries, have you actually CHECKED whether he has it enabled? > > No. I do not claim that his problem was caused by the stats. > It is just that I get reports from people with mysterious mount > and fdisk problems that go away when CONFIG_BLK_STATS is disabled.
Could you forward me these reports, please?
Thats really bad.
> And requests from RedHat to put ugly patches into mount to > tell stdio to use a larger buffer, increasing the probability that > all is read in one go. > > > > I rather suspect it's the following bug (introduce by me, but not > > depend on CONFIG_BLK_STATS): > > Good! > > So the very reproducible problem is solved, and only the > sporadic random problem is left. > > I still hope that you will remove it again.
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