Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 31 Jan 2007 08:02:37 +0100 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: How many people are using 2.6.16? |
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On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 06:36:48PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Mark Lord wrote: > > > > I believe our featherless leader said he though it was an ancient bug, > > exasperated by something that went into 2.6.19. > > > > If Linus's opinion is correct (still?), then the bug exists in all > > kernels since somewhere back in the 2.4.xx days. > > The issue was somewhat confused by people certainly *reporting* it for > older kernels. Also, as part of the dirty bit cleanups and sanity > checkingwe did actually seem to fix a long-standing CIFS corruption (and > apparently reisertfs/XFS problems too). > > But the *common* case was actually introduced with 2.6.19, and 2.6.16 > wouldn't be affected.
Thanks for the clarifications.
Regarding the longstanding CIFS/reiserfs/XFS problems, it seems the status is:
CIFS: commit cb876f451455b6187a7d69de2c112c45ec4b7f99 Fix up CIFS for "test_clear_page_dirty()" removal queued for 2.6.19.3 applies and compiles against 2.6.16
reiserfs: commit de14569f94513279e3d44d9571a421e9da1759ae [PATCH] resierfs: avoid tail packing if an inode was ever mmapped backport to 2.6.16 required
XFS: fix not yet in your tree
> Linus
cu Adrian
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