Re: Ok, making ready for pre-2.4 and code-freeze..

1999-12-14 Thread Alexander Viro
For the VFS/VM interaction - add mmap()/write() deadlock. BTW, it looks like FreeBSD has a data-corrupting race almost in the same place...

Re: Ok, making ready for pre-2.4 and code-freeze..

1999-12-14 Thread Stephen Frost
On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Alan Cox wrote: > Taking my working list the key items seem to be > > About 70% of device drivers dont have the setup code fixed. In many cases that > makes them unusable non modular What kind of work is this? If it's pretty simple stuff, just repetitive, I may be

Re: Ok, making ready for pre-2.4 and code-freeze..

1999-12-14 Thread Alan Cox
> For less critical stuff (== near post-2.4.0): > ->fhandle_to_dentry() (maybe it will go before the 2.4) That one is pretty critical for NFS > cleaning up remnants of dcache abuse in knfsd _and_ NFS. > taking silly-rename mechanism into VFS (and smbfs might _really_ > win from

Re: Ok, making ready for pre-2.4 and code-freeze..

1999-12-14 Thread Alexander Viro
On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Alan Cox wrote: > > For less critical stuff (== near post-2.4.0): > > ->fhandle_to_dentry() (maybe it will go before the 2.4) > > That one is pretty critical for NFS OK, I'll bump it up in the queue. > Add isofs breaks on DVD (it has a 4Gig byte wrap problem on bigge

Re: Ok, making ready for pre-2.4 and code-freeze..

1999-12-14 Thread Alexander Viro
On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Alan Cox wrote: > Getblk/mark buffer races in most file systems > Protection for inode size fields is wrong right now I'll take metadata part of the story, but the rest is trickier. BTW, we still has oopsable bugs in truncate() on continuous-files filesystems. It will be f

Re: Ok, making ready for pre-2.4 and code-freeze..

1999-12-14 Thread Alan Cox
> loopback, ramdisk, raid - more or less broken. Ingo has raid and PIII diff merging queued to do. The old raid code isnt worth fixing on that basis. > CODA - will need serious testing after the expected large patch. CODA is the sort of thing that can be fixed up later. > pro

Re: Ok, making ready for pre-2.4 and code-freeze..

1999-12-14 Thread Alexander Viro
On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, David S. Miller wrote: > > I'm still a few weeks away from getting my platforms working again, > currently I'm wedged at 2.3.27 with some weird perhaps Sparc-specific > issue that is preventing user apps from stating up after boot. > > Could be the new zone code, who know

ACL Developers List Web Archive

1999-12-14 Thread Andreas Gruenbacher
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