From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" <linux-os@analogic.com>
Cc: Ralf Hildebrandt <Ralf.Hildebrandt@charite.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel BUG at drivers/ide/ide.c:1384!
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 16:02:22 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1136822543.6659.20.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0601091025480.17766@chaos.analogic.com>
On Llu, 2006-01-09 at 10:30 -0500, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:
> He might be able to do the same thing with `cat /dev/urandom > /dev/hda`.
Or by taking the lid off and painting it purple with pink spots, but
neither are relevant to the problem at hand.
> There are not a lot of file-system checks against bad data in file-systems.
Nothing to do with the file system
> The '-w' reset will guarantee bad data, which may propagate to the
> file-system(s) in use, causing all kinds of problems. So, the OOPS under
> these conditions is expected.
No. If the locking in the drivers is correct then -w is totally boringly
safe. But the locking isn't. Follow ups should probably go to the
linux-ide list.
Alan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-09 15:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-09 9:51 kernel BUG at drivers/ide/ide.c:1384! Ralf Hildebrandt
2006-01-09 10:06 ` Ralf Hildebrandt
2006-01-09 14:19 ` Alan Cox
2006-01-09 14:19 ` Ralf Hildebrandt
2006-01-09 15:30 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-01-09 16:02 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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