From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>,
Andre Tomt <andre@tomt.net>,
Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.9-rc4 - pls test (and no more patches)
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 21:02:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041012040202.GV9106@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0410111633410.3897@ppc970.osdl.org>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-12 4:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-11 3:22 Linux 2.6.9-rc4 - pls test (and no more patches) Linus Torvalds
2004-10-11 7:07 ` Gene Heskett
2004-10-11 7:23 ` via-velocity heads up (was (Re: Linux 2.6.9-rc4 - pls test (and no more patches)) Francois Romieu
2004-10-11 13:32 ` Daniel Andersen
2004-10-11 16:53 ` Jerone Young
2004-10-11 9:07 ` Linux 2.6.9-rc4 - pls test (and no more patches) Brice Goglin
2004-10-11 14:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-11 20:22 ` Kjartan Maraas
2004-10-11 9:35 ` Andre Tomt
2004-10-11 15:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-11 15:09 ` James Bottomley
2004-10-11 18:22 ` Andre Tomt
2004-10-11 19:29 ` James Bottomley
2004-10-11 23:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-12 1:01 ` Lee Revell
2004-10-12 4:02 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2004-10-12 6:57 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-10-11 21:37 ` Chris Ricker
2004-10-11 9:54 ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-11 15:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-11 15:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-12 0:11 ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-11 23:48 ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-12 6:00 ` Barry K. Nathan
2004-10-11 15:48 ` Linux 2.6.9-rc4 (compile stats) John Cherry
2004-10-11 15:51 ` John Cherry
2004-10-11 16:24 ` [patch] 2.6.9-rc4: SCSI qla2xxx gcc 3.4 compile errors Adrian Bunk
2004-10-11 16:28 ` James Bottomley
2004-10-11 16:35 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-10-11 17:05 ` James Bottomley
2004-10-11 22:04 ` Linux 2.6.9-rc4 - pls test (and no more patches) Tom Rini
2004-10-11 23:23 ` Tom Rini
2004-10-12 8:05 ` Matthias Andree
2004-10-12 9:09 ` [PATCH] tcp_output.c: tcp_set_skb_tso_factor ---> tcp_set_skb_tso_segs [Was: Re: Linux 2.6.9-rc4 - pls test (and no more patches)] Sami Farin
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-10-11 16:07 Linux 2.6.9-rc4 - pls test (and no more patches) Yu, Luming
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