From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Cc: jens.axboe@oracle.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Mount -o sync regression in 2.6.31
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:20:42 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091111142042.657c1a66@nehalam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200911112234.24180.elendil@planet.nl>
On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:34:22 +0100
Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> wrote:
> Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > I tried the obvious bisection, but git bisect seems to wonder off into
> > the weeds now. There is no reason that bisecting between v2.6.30 and
> > v2.6.31-rc1 should go off into v2.6.30-rc2
>
> AFAIK that can happen if some branch was merged after 2.6.30 that happened
> to be based on a commit from v2.6.30-rc2. Did you check in what branch you
> were when that happened?
>
> If you look at 'gitk v2.6.30..v2.6.31-rc1' and scroll to the bottom, you
> will see quite a few merges of branches that were based on commits from
> (early) v2.6.30-rcX releases.
>
> Cheers.
> FJP
That makes sense but is confusing.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-11 22:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-11 20:33 Mount -o sync regression in 2.6.31 Stephen Hemminger
2009-11-11 21:34 ` Frans Pop
2009-11-11 22:20 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2009-11-13 22:47 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-11-13 23:07 ` Andrew Morton
2009-11-13 23:28 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-11-17 0:04 ` [PATCH] ext2: clear uptodate flag on super block I/O error Stephen Hemminger
2009-11-17 2:08 ` Nick Piggin
2009-11-17 17:16 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-11-14 13:18 ` Mount -o sync regression in 2.6.31 Frederic Weisbecker
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