Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 09:26:58 +0100
From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: Elias Oltmanns <eo@nebensachen.de>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, Christoph Schmid <chris@schlagmichtod.de>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: is there any Hard-disk shock-protection for 2.6.18 and above?
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On Sun, Dec 10 2006, Elias Oltmanns wrote:
> Hi Jens,
> 
> Elias Oltmanns <eo@nebensachen.de> wrote:
> > So, here is a patch in which your remarks and suggestions have been
> > incorporated. Additionally, I've added the requested kernel doc file
> > and another sysfs attribute called protect_method. The usage of this
> > attribute is described in Documentation/block/disk-protection.txt.
> 
> Just forgot to mention that your suggestions haven't been implemented
> yet. Thats because I'm only gradually beginning to understand the
> reasoning and how it might work out in the end. It will probably take
> me another weekend (or more) to come up with something fit for
> discussion. Bare with me, I'm rather busy at the moment and still new
> to the block layer (or kernel code, for that matter).

No worries, take your time. The target for the code wont be 2.6.20
anyways, so you have at least a month to get things designed right and
solid for a 2.6.21 target.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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