Re: Linux 2.6.9-rc4 - pls test (and no more patches)

William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-12T04:02:18Z

On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, James Bottomley wrote:
>> Yes, well, that's one of the things that worries me slightly ... no-one
>> has reported the data corruption that the patch claims to fix. That's
>> one of the reasons I was planning to take it through the normal cycle.

On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 04:35:50PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Well, as far as I can tell from the patch, the only way to get data
> corruption from the bug is when you use the SCSI ioctl's at the same time
> as the disk is busy.
> In other words, I think you'd have to do some special disk management, or
> possibly try to burn a CD on a SCSI CD-ROM (or other special device that
> uses the SCSI ioctl's) on the same controller. And nobody uses SCSI
> CD-burners any more, I'd think.

Hey! I do. For some reason I've not hit this data corruption. I guess
it's a good question as to why; maybe I trail mainline by long enough
on my "desktop" to have missed where it was introduced.

-- wli