Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Neil Brown
On Tuesday November 13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tuesday 13 November 2007 07:08, Mark Lord wrote: > > Ingo Molnar wrote: > > .. > > > > > This is all QA-101 that _cannot be argued against on a rational basis_, > > > it's just that these sorts of things have been largely ignored for > > > years

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Neil Brown
On Wednesday November 14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 09:38:20AM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:08:47 +0100 Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > so please stop this "too busy and too noisy" nonsense already. It was > > > nonsense 10 years ago and it's nonsense tod

[PATCHSET/RFC] Refactor block layer to improve support for stacked devices.

2007-07-30 Thread Neil Brown
Hi, I have just sent a patch-set to linux-kernel that touches quite a number of block device drives, with particular relevance to md and dm. Rather than fill lots of peoples mailboxes multiple times (35 patches in the set), I only sent the full set to linux-kernel, and am just sending this

Re: end to end error recovery musings

2007-02-25 Thread Neil Brown
On Friday February 23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 05:37:23PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > > Probably the only sane thing to do is to remember the bad sectors and > > > avoid attempting reading them; that would mean marking "automatic" > > > versus "explicitly requested