From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [git patches] xfs and block fixes for virtually indexed arches Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:51:10 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <20091216043618.GB9104@hera.kernel.org> <20091217132256.GO28962@bombadil.infradead.org> <20091217163036.GE2123@thunk.org> <20091217173957.GG2123@thunk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:34255 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750753AbZLQRwB (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:52:01 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20091217173957.GG2123@thunk.org> Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: tytso@mit.edu Cc: Kyle McMartin , linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , James.Bottomley@suse.de, hch@infradead.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe 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