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From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch] silence an unnescessary raid5 debugging message
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On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 05:51:16PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
>    From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
>    Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 19:36:12 -0400
>    
>    As it stands, the syslogging from the printk does more damage to
>    performance than the underlying problem.  Besides, LVM snapshots
>    are slow, but they're useful for a class of problems anyways.
> 
> He's just saying kill the real problem first, that's all.

I'm just saying that the message is the only real problem I have with 
the state of 2.4.  Sure, 2.5 deserves it fixed correctly, but I doubt 
the correct fix will make it into 2.4 anytime soon (it's far more 
dangerous than we should consider shipping in a "stable" series).

		-ben
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