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Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 17:54:30 +0200
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: "Heinz J. Mauelshagen" <Mauelshagen@Sistina.com>
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Subject: Re: /dev/loop0 over lvm... leading to d-state :-(
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On Thu, Apr 05 2001, Heinz J. Mauelshagen wrote:
> > Where? Calling buffer_IO_error would be ok, but there are no such calls
> > in 2.4.3. I just stated elsewhere that submit_bh should probably be
> > clearing the dirty bit, not ll_rw_block, in which case the b_end_io
> > is fine. But buffer_IO_error is probably more clear. I trust you'll
> > take care of that part then.
> 
> Sorry, didn't mention that you need to patch the driver with the recent
> LVM software in order to get it.

Ah ok, so the b_dev/b_blocknr is all then. Good.

> I've send the patch a while ago to Linus to get it into 2.4.3
> but he obviously didn't include it (likely because he thought it was too
> large ;-)

Maybe you're hanging on to fixes and submitting huge chunks of them?

> He didn't comment back to me at all though :-(
> Maybe this will help.

Two things that usually help -- submit small and often, then resubmit,
resubmit, resubmit until he takes it or complains loudly :-)

-- 
Jens Axboe

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