Re: [PATCH] rd: Mark ramdisk buffers heads dirty

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Am Dienstag, 16. Oktober 2007 schrieb Nick Piggin:
> While I said it was a good fix when I saw the patch earlier, I think
> it's not closing the entire hole, and as such, Christian's patch is
> probably the way to go for stable.

That would be my preferred method. Merge Erics and my fixup for 2.6.24-rc.
The only open questions is, what was the reiserfs problem? Is it still
causes by Erics patches?

> For mainline, *if* we want to keep the old rd.c around at all, I
> don't see any harm in this patch so long as Christian's is merged
> as well. Sharing common code is always good.

While the merge window is still open, to me the new ramdisk code seems
more like a 2.6.25-rc thing. We actually should test the behaviour in 
low memory scenarios. What do you think?

Christian
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