* Re: Fwd: Bcache Status
2015-10-12 16:36 ` Peter Kieser
@ 2015-10-12 16:51 ` Vasiliy Tolstov
2015-10-14 8:42 ` Koen Kooi
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From: Vasiliy Tolstov @ 2015-10-12 16:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Peter Kieser; +Cc: Andrew Thrift, linux-bcache, Greg KH, Jens Axboe
2015-10-12 19:36 GMT+03:00 Peter Kieser <peter@kieser.ca>:
> 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.
Sometimes ago i'm using bcache, but i'm lucky and dont loose my data=)
But now i'm prefer to check lvm cache status and wait for stabilization.
--
Vasiliy Tolstov,
e-mail: v.tolstov@selfip.ru
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* Re: Fwd: Bcache Status
2015-10-12 16:36 ` Peter Kieser
2015-10-12 16:51 ` Vasiliy Tolstov
@ 2015-10-14 8:42 ` Koen Kooi
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From: Koen Kooi @ 2015-10-14 8:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-bcache
Op 12-10-15 om 18:36 schreef Peter Kieser:
>
>
> 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.
If Kent won't do it (for whatever reasons), anyone can propose the patches for
backporting to the various stable kernels.
This is a seperate problem than the "patches posted to this list don't get
into mainline at all" issue.
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