Re: Fwd: Bcache Status

[Peter Kieser <peter@kieser.ca>]

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On 2015-10-11 4:04 PM, Andrew Thrift wrote:
> I notice over the past 18 months there have been a number of patches
> posted to this mailing list to resolve known issues with bcache.
>
> I cant see that these have been merged into the main bcache git at
> http://evilpiepirate.org/git/linux-bcache.git, is this actually the
> case or am I mistaken?
>
> Will these patches ever be seen in mainline ?
Backports of critical bug fixes not being done was brought to attention 
of Greg KH in September 2014, where Jens and myself mentioned that 
bcache stable patches (data corruption, stability, etc.) were not being 
backported to the Linux stable branches. The response from the author of 
bcache was "This kind of unnecessary hostility is why I don't bother 
with stable much anymore. I get enough of this bullshit at work, thank you."

Unfortunately, the situation hasn't cahnged. bcache still will eat your 
data under certain use cases, and there is no warning and bcache still 
doesn't have a testing/experimental flag set on it. I guess the ultimate 
answer was "backport and submit a pull request yourself" but I'm not 
sure this is appropriate.

-Peter


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