From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 08:34:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 08:34:00 -0500 Received: from ns.virtualhost.dk ([195.184.98.160]:44550 "EHLO virtualhost.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 08:33:54 -0500 Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 14:33:48 +0100 From: Jens Axboe To: Matti Långvall Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Running 2.4.0-ac11 Message-ID: <20010127143348.D27929@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <3A720485.58D656A4@sorliden.ornskoldsvik.com> <20010127015122.E23160@suse.de> <3A72921C.D013F074@sorliden.ornskoldsvik.com> <20010127121742.A27553@suse.de> <3A72CD7B.62402916@sorliden.ornskoldsvik.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <3A72CD7B.62402916@sorliden.ornskoldsvik.com>; from matti.langvall@sorliden.ornskoldsvik.com on Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 02:30:35PM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jan 27 2001, Matti Långvall wrote: > You're right, no more Busy inodes. Good, so that was the cause. > But magicdev is nice for us lazy people.. No, the _concept_ is nice for lazy people but the current magicdev is not worth much. I know Alan has tinkered with a new version, hopefully that will be much better. Most newer drives have real (but polled) media notification event classes, which is a much better way to accomplish what magicdev is trying to do. -- * Jens Axboe * SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/