From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Kieser Subject: Re: Fwd: Bcache Status Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 09:36:12 -0700 Message-ID: <561BE17C.5020402@kieser.ca> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature"; micalg=sha-256; boundary="------------ms040200030905090205040405" Return-path: Received: from mail.pfak.org ([198.50.219.4]:40058 "EHLO mail.pfak.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750890AbbJLQgO (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Oct 2015 12:36:14 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-bcache-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Thrift , linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg KH , Jens Axboe This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format. --------------ms040200030905090205040405 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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=20 of Greg KH in September 2014, where Jens and myself mentioned that=20 bcache stable patches (data corruption, stability, etc.) were not being=20 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=20 with stable much anymore. I get enough of this bullshit at work, thank yo= u." Unfortunately, the situation hasn't cahnged. bcache still will eat your=20 data under certain use cases, and there is no warning and bcache still=20 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=20 sure this is appropriate. -Peter --------------ms040200030905090205040405 Content-Type: application/pkcs7-signature; name="smime.p7s" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="smime.p7s" Content-Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature MIAGCSqGSIb3DQEHAqCAMIACAQExDzANBglghkgBZQMEAgEFADCABgkqhkiG9w0BBwEAAKCC DKswggY0MIIEHKADAgECAgEgMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBBQUAMH0xCzAJBgNVBAYTAklMMRYwFAYD VQQKEw1TdGFydENvbSBMdGQuMSswKQYDVQQLEyJTZWN1cmUgRGlnaXRhbCBDZXJ0aWZpY2F0 ZSBTaWduaW5nMSkwJwYDVQQDEyBTdGFydENvbSBDZXJ0aWZpY2F0aW9uIEF1dGhvcml0eTAe Fw0wNzEwMjQyMTAyNTVaFw0xNzEwMjQyMTAyNTVaMIGMMQswCQYDVQQGEwJJTDEWMBQGA1UE ChMNU3RhcnRDb20gTHRkLjErMCkGA1UECxMiU2VjdXJlIERpZ2l0YWwgQ2VydGlmaWNhdGUg U2lnbmluZzE4MDYGA1UEAxMvU3RhcnRDb20gQ2xhc3MgMiBQcmltYXJ5IEludGVybWVkaWF0 ZSBDbGllbnQgQ0EwggEiMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAQUAA4IBDwAwggEKAoIBAQDLKIVFnAEs+xny 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