Dan Williams <[email protected]> writes: >> Sounds like we simply shouldn't merge btt at all for now and wait for >> a real use case, which would simplify the whole issue a lot. > > The sinister aspect of sector tearing is that most applications don't > know they have this dependency. At least today's disk's rarely ever > tear sectors and if they do you almost certainly get a CRC error on > access. NVDIMMs will always tear and always silently. I think not > merging BTT at all to see what happens is simply wrong.
Agreed, we can't audit all code, and springing this potential data corruptor on people seems irresponsible. -Jeff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
