From: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
To: Ludovic Drolez <ludovic.drolez@freealter.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BLKBSZSET still not working on 2.4.18 ?
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 16:26:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030113152634.GA20960@win.tue.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E22A2E4.2000604@freealter.com>
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 12:28:36PM +0100, Ludovic Drolez wrote:
> >You can test 2.5. If it is wrong there I must submit a patch.
> It seems to work perfectly with 2.5.56
Excellent.
> But, I'm still reluctant to use an unstable kernel for backuping a
> partition. But maybe the 2.5 is stable enough to read blocks from
> IDE/SCSI drives, and send them over NFSv2 / IPv4 ?
Stable / unstable is not a binary decision. Some things are broken
in 2.4. Many things are broken in 2.5. Still I use 2.5.recent
on a daily basis without meeting bad problems (if I refrain from
inserting and removing USB devices).
Try, and if it works for you, fine. But no guarantees given.
Andries
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-13 15:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-10 15:32 BLKBSZSET still not working on 2.4.18 ? Ludovic Drolez
2003-01-10 16:13 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-01-13 11:28 ` Ludovic Drolez
2003-01-13 15:26 ` Andries Brouwer [this message]
2003-01-10 17:08 ` Alan Cox
2003-01-10 17:08 ` John Bradford
2003-01-10 18:14 ` Alan Cox
2003-01-10 17:40 ` Andries Brouwer
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