Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263750AbTENCPV (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2003 22:15:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263752AbTENCPV (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2003 22:15:21 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:44223 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263750AbTENCPU (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2003 22:15:20 -0400 Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 19:27:59 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Shawn Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: odd db4 error with 2.5.69-mm4 [was Re: Huraaa for 2.5] Message-ID: <20030514022759.GJ8978@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Shawn , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Andrew Morton References: <1052866461.23191.4.camel@www.enodev.com> <20030514012731.GF8978@holomorphy.com> <1052877161.3569.17.camel@www.enodev.com> <20030514021826.GI8978@holomorphy.com> <1052879063.3569.31.camel@www.enodev.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1052879063.3569.31.camel@www.enodev.com> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1166 Lines: 25 On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 21:18, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> They appear to either not be running in equivalent environments or >> something has gone horribly wrong. The diff is incredibly noisy and not >> useful for debugging, could you strace the working kernel's bit as root? >> Also, things start getting wildly different after both examine DB_CONFIG, >> where 2.4 and 2.5 open different files with different options, i.e. 2.5 >> does O_DIRECT on /var/lib/rpm/__db.001 and 2.4 never touches that file, >> and 2.4 never does O_DIRECT either. >> This may very well have something to do with the difference in >> privileges. On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 09:24:23PM -0500, Shawn wrote: > Thanks for all the help! So, is it that there is likely misuse of > O_DIRECT somewhere (db4, rpm, etc)? > Wonder if I should bother filing a bug if rpm has a bugzilla... My sources say the bug is in the packaged version of db4. -- wli - 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/