Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 14:53:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 14:53:52 -0400 Received: from kweetal.tue.nl ([131.155.2.7]:41070 "EHLO kweetal.tue.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 14:53:50 -0400 Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 20:59:58 +0200 From: Andries Brouwer To: Christoph Hellwig , Jan Kasprzak , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, marcelo@conectiva.com.br Subject: Re: 2.4.20-pre11 /proc/partitions read Message-ID: <20021022185958.GB26585@win.tue.nl> References: <20021022161957.N26402@fi.muni.cz> <20021022184034.GA26585@win.tue.nl> <20021022194514.B3867@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021022194514.B3867@infradead.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 973 Lines: 29 On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 07:45:14PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Andries, have you actually CHECKED whether he has it enabled? No. I do not claim that his problem was caused by the stats. It is just that I get reports from people with mysterious mount and fdisk problems that go away when CONFIG_BLK_STATS is disabled. And requests from RedHat to put ugly patches into mount to tell stdio to use a larger buffer, increasing the probability that all is read in one go. > I rather suspect it's the following bug (introduce by me, but not > depend on CONFIG_BLK_STATS): Good! So the very reproducible problem is solved, and only the sporadic random problem is left. I still hope that you will remove it again. Andries - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/