From: Ville Herva <vherva@vianova.fi>
To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: block2mtd: Overrun end of disk in cache readahead
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 11:28:48 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060706082847.GM15078@vianova.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060705112223.GA29743@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 01:22:23PM +0200, you [Jörn Engel] wrote:
>
> I'm fairly tempted to just nuke the readahead code completely. For
> some users, it is outright harmful (usbstick, some other flash behind
> blockdev interface), for others it should be done by the block device
> driver, not by block2mtd.
>
> If either of you wants to do that and can test the resulting patch,
> you have my blessing.
I'm afraid the box I tested this with already has already gone to
"production". So I currently have zero flash devices I could test this on.
Of course, I guess I could just use regular block device (a loop file,
even)...
-- v --
v@iki.fi
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-06 8:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-05 7:26 block2mtd: Overrun end of disk in cache readahead Ville Herva
2006-07-05 7:49 ` Norbert Federa
2006-07-05 10:07 ` Ville Herva
2006-07-05 11:22 ` Jörn Engel
2006-07-06 8:28 ` Ville Herva [this message]
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