From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: tytso@mit.edu
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>,
linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
James.Bottomley@suse.de, hch@infradead.org,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [git patches] xfs and block fixes for virtually indexed arches
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:51:10 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0912170950330.15740@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091217173957.GG2123@thunk.org>
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, tytso@mit.edu wrote:
>
> Sure, but there's some rumors/oral traditions going around that some
> block devices want bio address which are page aligned, because they
> want to play some kind of refcounting game,
Yeah, you might be right at that.
> And it's Weird Shit(tm) (aka iSCSI, AoE) type drivers, that most of us
> don't have access to, so just because it works Just Fine on SATA doesn't
> mean anything.
>
> And none of this is documented anywhere, which is frustrating as hell.
> Just rumors that "if you do this, AoE/iSCSI will corrupt your file
> systems".
ACK. Jens?
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-17 17:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20091216043618.GB9104@hera.kernel.org>
2009-12-17 13:22 ` [git patches] xfs and block fixes for virtually indexed arches Kyle McMartin
2009-12-17 13:22 ` Kyle McMartin
2009-12-17 13:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-12-17 16:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-12-17 16:30 ` tytso
2009-12-17 16:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-12-17 16:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-12-17 17:07 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-12-17 17:07 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-12-17 17:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-12-17 17:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-12-17 17:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-12-17 18:08 ` Russell King
2009-12-17 18:08 ` Russell King
2009-12-17 18:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-12-17 18:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-12-19 18:33 ` Ralf Baechle
2009-12-19 18:33 ` Ralf Baechle
2009-12-21 17:14 ` James Bottomley
2009-12-17 17:39 ` tytso
2009-12-17 17:39 ` tytso
2009-12-17 17:51 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2009-12-17 19:36 ` Jens Axboe
2009-12-17 19:36 ` Jens Axboe
2009-12-17 23:57 ` James Bottomley
2009-12-17 23:57 ` James Bottomley
2009-12-18 1:00 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2009-12-18 2:44 ` Dave Chinner
2009-12-18 2:44 ` Dave Chinner
2009-12-18 3:51 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2009-12-18 3:51 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2009-12-18 7:10 ` James Bottomley
2009-12-18 7:08 ` James Bottomley
2009-12-18 9:34 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2009-12-18 10:01 ` James Bottomley
2009-12-18 10:01 ` James Bottomley
2009-12-18 10:24 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2009-12-18 10:30 ` James Bottomley
2009-12-18 12:00 ` Dave Chinner
2009-12-18 12:00 ` Dave Chinner
2009-12-18 0:21 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2009-12-18 14:17 ` tytso
2009-12-18 14:17 ` tytso
2009-12-21 8:53 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2009-12-17 17:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-12-17 17:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-12-17 17:33 ` tytso
2009-12-17 17:33 ` tytso
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