Re: v2.6 vs v3.0

Jens Axboe
2002-09-29T15:40:12Z

On Sun, Sep 29 2002, Trever L. Adams wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 02:14, james wrote:
> > How many people are sitting on the sidelines waiting for guarantee
> > that ide is not going to blow up on our filesystems and take our
> > data with it. Guarantee that ide is working and not dangerous to our
> > data, then I bet a lot more people will come back and bang on 2.5.
>
> I can tell you right now that I am one of these. I usually would have
> been involved in testing it for my situations/needs several months
> ago, but I have been very leary of the IDE and block changes. I have
> one machine (a router) that I could test it on if I knew that the
> dangers of IDE and block were at least low and that the IPv4 and
> associated networking connection tracking and NAT stuff worked.

How many accounts of the new block layer corrupting data have you been
aware of? Since 2.5.1-preX when bio was introduced, I know of one such
bug: floppy, due to the partial completion changes. Hardly critical.

--
Jens Axboe