Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 14:57:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 14:57:38 -0400 Received: from perninha.conectiva.com.br ([200.250.58.156]:48606 "EHLO perninha.conectiva.com.br") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 14:57:37 -0400 Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 16:26:35 -0200 (BRST) From: Marcelo Tosatti X-X-Sender: marcelo@freak.distro.conectiva To: Andries Brouwer Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Jan Kasprzak , Subject: Re: 2.4.20-pre11 /proc/partitions read In-Reply-To: <20021022185958.GB26585@win.tue.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1111 Lines: 36 On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Andries Brouwer wrote: > 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. Could you forward me these reports, please? Thats really bad. > 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. - 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/