Re: How many people are using 2.6.16?

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

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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