From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262531AbULDGQH (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Dec 2004 01:16:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262534AbULDGQH (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Dec 2004 01:16:07 -0500 Received: from mail.ccdaust.com.au ([203.29.88.42]:57914 "EHLO gateway.ccdaust.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262531AbULDGQE (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Dec 2004 01:16:04 -0500 Message-ID: <41B15615.3020001@wasp.net.au> Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 10:15:49 +0400 From: Brad Campbell User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6+ (X11/20041109) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dieter Stueken CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: libata-dev queue updated References: <41B07FC3.9040506@conterra.de> In-Reply-To: <41B07FC3.9040506@conterra.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Dieter Stueken wrote: >> * ATA passthru (read: SMART support) > > > is it still unsafe to use passthru concurrently > to normal disk I/O, as stated earlier? It appears to be safe with a UP machine at the moment. (Read as: I have been beating it hard for over a month with no issues.) SMP is known to have a race which may not be good. -- Brad /"\ Save the Forests \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN Burn a Greenie. X AGAINST HTML MAIL / \