Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 29 Sep 2002 18:06:01 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: v2.6 vs v3.0 |
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On Sun, Sep 29 2002, Trever L. Adams wrote: > On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 11:45, Jens Axboe wrote: > > How many accounts of the new block layer corrupting data have you been > > aware of? Since 2.5.1-preX when bio was introduced, I know of one such > > bug: floppy, due to the partial completion changes. Hardly critical. > > > > -- > > Jens Axboe > > Sorry Jens, I never meant to imply I had heard of any since that floppy > bug. I just understand there were some problems at the beginning. > Also, I haven't been able to follow LKM as well as I would have liked > lately, but a few months ago, in one of the many IDE bash sessions that > have happened in 2.5.x I read a few people blaiming some of the problems > on interactions between the new block layer and the IDE layer.
No worries. I can understand how people would be weary of block layer changes, as they have the potential to corrupt your data.
> Sorry about the worries. I am just trying to be cautious. I am > guessing you are saying that the block layer is now solid? If this is
Nah I'm saying that it's always been solid. Why would I suddenly destabilize it now? :-)
> the case, it sure knocks a few of my worries out of the ball park and I > will be that much closer to trying out 2.5.x myself.
As always, it's untested territory so a backup may be in order. But I don't view testing 2.5 as any more dangerous as testing 2.4-ac.
-- Jens Axboe
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