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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Chris Torek <chris.torek@windriver.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: question about xfs_fsync on linux
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:48:30 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080715024830.GZ29319@disturbed> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200807150129.m6F1THE23901@elf.torek.net>

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 07:29:16PM -0600, Chris Torek wrote:
> >What kernel(s), exactly, is/are showing this problem?
> 
> Well, that part is a bit tricky.  The base kernel is 2.6.21
> but it has a lot of patches, including the one you mentioned.
> (The customer is double checking to make sure they actually have
> that patch in.)

Well, you are pretty much on your own, then. Really, we cannot help
diagnose problems on old kernels with a random set of backported
patches in them.  If you can provide a reproducable test case that
triggers the problem on a recent, pristine tree then we can find the
problem and fix it.

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-15  2:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-14 22:13 question about xfs_fsync on linux Chris Torek
2008-07-14 23:03 ` Dave Chinner
2008-07-15  1:29   ` Chris Torek
2008-07-15  2:48     ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2008-07-16 21:58       ` Chris Torek
2008-07-17  0:22         ` Dave Chinner

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