Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269425AbUJLECS (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Oct 2004 00:02:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269435AbUJLECS (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Oct 2004 00:02:18 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([207.189.100.168]:33156 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269425AbUJLECQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Oct 2004 00:02:16 -0400 Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 21:02:02 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Linus Torvalds Cc: James Bottomley , Andre Tomt , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.9-rc4 - pls test (and no more patches) Message-ID: <20041012040202.GV9106@holomorphy.com> References: <416A53D3.9020002@tomt.net> <1097507381.2029.40.camel@mulgrave> <416ACF5E.80407@tomt.net> <1097522974.2029.161.camel@mulgrave> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1208 Lines: 25 On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, James Bottomley wrote: >> Yes, well, that's one of the things that worries me slightly ... no-one >> has reported the data corruption that the patch claims to fix. That's >> one of the reasons I was planning to take it through the normal cycle. On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 04:35:50PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Well, as far as I can tell from the patch, the only way to get data > corruption from the bug is when you use the SCSI ioctl's at the same time > as the disk is busy. > In other words, I think you'd have to do some special disk management, or > possibly try to burn a CD on a SCSI CD-ROM (or other special device that > uses the SCSI ioctl's) on the same controller. And nobody uses SCSI > CD-burners any more, I'd think. Hey! I do. For some reason I've not hit this data corruption. I guess it's a good question as to why; maybe I trail mainline by long enough on my "desktop" to have missed where it was introduced. -- 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/