Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:51:10 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: tytso@mit.edu
cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       James.Bottomley@suse.de, hch@infradead.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
       Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [git patches] xfs and block fixes for virtually indexed arches
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On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, tytso@mit.edu wrote:
> 
> Sure, but there's some rumors/oral traditions going around that some
> block devices want bio address which are page aligned, because they
> want to play some kind of refcounting game,

Yeah, you might be right at that.

> And it's Weird Shit(tm) (aka iSCSI, AoE) type drivers, that most of us 
> don't have access to, so just because it works Just Fine on SATA doesn't 
> mean anything.
> 
> And none of this is documented anywhere, which is frustrating as hell.
> Just rumors that "if you do this, AoE/iSCSI will corrupt your file
> systems".

ACK. Jens? 

		Linus
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