linux-kernel - Re: How many people are using 2.6.16?

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Date:	Wed, 31 Jan 2007 07:34:35 -0800 (PST)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
cc:	Mark Lord <lkml@....ca>, Bron Gondwana <brong@...tmail.fm>,
	Mike Houston <mikeserv@...s.com>,
	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Steve French <smfltc@...ibm.com>,
	Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Daniel Drake <dsd@...too.org>, samba-technical@...ts.samba.org,
	Vladimir Saveliev <vs@...esys.com>, reiserfs-dev@...esys.com,
	David Chinner <dgc@....com>, xfs-masters@....sgi.com
Subject: Re: How many people are using 2.6.16?



On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 
> Regarding the longstanding CIFS/reiserfs/XFS problems, it seems the 
> status is:
> 
> CIFS:
> commit cb876f451455b6187a7d69de2c112c45ec4b7f99
>   Fix up CIFS for "test_clear_page_dirty()" removal
> queued for 2.6.19.3
> applies and compiles against 2.6.16
> 
> reiserfs:
> commit de14569f94513279e3d44d9571a421e9da1759ae
>   [PATCH] resierfs: avoid tail packing if an inode was ever mmapped
> backport to 2.6.16 required
> 
> XFS:
> fix not yet in your tree

Yes. The XFS problem should only be triggerable through O_DIRECT and 
non-O_DIRECT mmap at the same time, so the fix for that got pushed back as 
noncritical.

NOTE! I'm still not 100% sure about the older bdb corruption reports. Were 
they just noise due to other issues? Flaky RAM? One report of corruption 
was actually due to running my test-program without enough diskspace, so 
while that confused the issue for a while, it turned out to be a 
non-issue.

So I'm just saying that there might be other things lurking too. 

		Linus
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