On Monday April 30, [email protected] 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, [email protected] 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.
NeilBrown
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
[Index of Archives]
[Kernel Newbies]
[Netfilter]
[Bugtraq]
[Photo]
[Stuff]
[Gimp]
[Yosemite News]
[MIPS Linux]
[ARM Linux]
[Linux Security]
[Linux RAID]
[Video 4 Linux]
[Linux for the blind]
[Linux Resources]
