Re: Fwd: Bcache Status

[Koen Kooi <koen@dominion.thruhere.net>]

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.