Messages in this thread | | | From | Neil Brown <> | Date | Tue, 1 May 2007 09:24:39 +1000 | Subject | Re: [-mm patch] i386: enable 4k stacks by default |
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On Monday April 30, jens.axboe@oracle.com wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 06:55:52PM +1000, Neil Brown wrote: > > > On Saturday April 28, zlynx@acm.org wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 21:19 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > > 4k stacks have become a well-tested feature used fore a long time in > > > > > Fedora and even in RHEL 4. > > > > > > > > So has anyone fixed the bugs involving ext3 and LVM snapshots on top of > > > > DM mirror? > > > > > > Well -mm has a patch which makes stacked block devices much less of an > > > issue, but this hasn't made it -linus yet - I think the dm developer > > > isn't happy that dm works properly with it. > > > > I get a little tired about this objection. If the particular dm code > > was racy before and this can in theory make it worse it's their problem, > > and putting in perfectly fine code will give them an incentive to > > fix their year old race. > > Agree, Neil would you mind if I merged the patch?
I am perfectly happy with this patch being merged - yes.
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