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Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 17:45:16 +0200
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: "Trever L. Adams" <tadams-lists@myrealbox.com>
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Subject: Re: v2.6 vs v3.0
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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

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