On Mon, Apr 30 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 06:55:52PM +1000, Neil Brown wrote: > > On Saturday April 28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 21:19 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > 4k stacks have become a well-tested feature used fore a long time in > > > > Fedora and even in RHEL 4. > > > > > > So has anyone fixed the bugs involving ext3 and LVM snapshots on top of > > > DM mirror? > > > > Well -mm has a patch which makes stacked block devices much less of an > > issue, but this hasn't made it -linus yet - I think the dm developer > > isn't happy that dm works properly with it. > > I get a little tired about this objection. If the particular dm code > was racy before and this can in theory make it worse it's their problem, > and putting in perfectly fine code will give them an incentive to > fix their year old race.
Agree, Neil would you mind if I merged the patch? -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
