Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Jun 2003 13:03:57 +0200 | From | Jörn Engel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Initial Vector Fix for loop.c. |
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On Fri, 20 June 2003 12:51:20 +0200, Fruhwirth Clemens wrote: > > Let's see. If there is flag based fix and we make the old behavior default > we will trick many new users into using the old broken IV metric. If we make > the new metric default the user can't mount his old images.
Unless he starts thinking and reads up how it works in 2.6.
> As there is no autodetection for default behavior, there will be no way to > avoid the pain. Well, almost. We could allocate a new major for a different > metric, and create /dev/loop-ng*. That'd be feasible, but actually just a > pain transfer .. from the user to the developer :)
I don't see a problem with that, assuming there are more users than developers. :)
Jörn
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