Re: How many people are using 2.6.16?

2007-02-07 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 03:38:42PM -0500, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > Josh Boyer wrote: > > On 1/29/07, Chuck Ebbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Is there any way to estimate the size of the user base for 2.6.16? > >> > >> e.g. how many downloads does it get? > > > > Are you including distros that

Re: How many people are using 2.6.16?

2007-02-07 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 03:38:42PM -0500, Chuck Ebbert wrote: Josh Boyer wrote: On 1/29/07, Chuck Ebbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to estimate the size of the user base for 2.6.16? e.g. how many downloads does it get? Are you including distros that use it as well?

Re: How many people are using 2.6.16?

2007-02-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 03:13:03PM +0300, Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote: > Hello Hi Vladimir, > On Wednesday 31 January 2007 10:02, Adrian Bunk wrote: >... > > reiserfs: > > commit de14569f94513279e3d44d9571a421e9da1759ae > > [PATCH] resierfs: avoid tail packing if an inode was ever mmapped > >

Re: How many people are using 2.6.16?

2007-02-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 03:13:03PM +0300, Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote: Hello Hi Vladimir, On Wednesday 31 January 2007 10:02, Adrian Bunk wrote: ... reiserfs: commit de14569f94513279e3d44d9571a421e9da1759ae [PATCH] resierfs: avoid tail packing if an inode was ever mmapped backport to

Re: How many people are using 2.6.16?

2007-02-01 Thread Vladimir V. Saveliev
Hello On Wednesday 31 January 2007 10:02, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 06:36:48PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Mark Lord wrote: > > > > > > I believe our featherless leader said he though it was an ancient bug, > > > exasperated by something

Re: How many people are using 2.6.16?

2007-02-01 Thread Vladimir V. Saveliev
Hello On Wednesday 31 January 2007 10:02, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 06:36:48PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Mark Lord wrote: I believe our featherless leader said he though it was an ancient bug, exasperated by something that went into

Re: How many people are using 2.6.16?

2007-01-31 Thread Linus Torvalds
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

Re: How many people are using 2.6.16?

2007-01-31 Thread Steve French (smfltc)
David Chinner wrote: On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 08:02:37AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 06:36:48PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: The issue was somewhat confused by people certainly *reporting* it for older kernels. Also, as part of the dirty bit cleanups and sanity

Re: How many people are using 2.6.16?

2007-01-31 Thread David Chinner
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 08:02:37AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 06:36:48PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > The issue was somewhat confused by people certainly *reporting* it for > > older kernels. Also, as part of the dirty bit cleanups and sanity > > checkingwe did

Reiserfs and MMAP (was: How many people are using 2.6.16?)

2007-01-31 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 08:02:37AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > reiserfs: > commit de14569f94513279e3d44d9571a421e9da1759ae > [PATCH] resierfs: avoid tail packing if an inode was ever mmapped > backport to 2.6.16 required Which would explain the "notail" I've been careful to cargo-cult into

Reiserfs and MMAP (was: How many people are using 2.6.16?)

2007-01-31 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 08:02:37AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: reiserfs: commit de14569f94513279e3d44d9571a421e9da1759ae [PATCH] resierfs: avoid tail packing if an inode was ever mmapped backport to 2.6.16 required Which would explain the notail I've been careful to cargo-cult into every

Re: How many people are using 2.6.16?

2007-01-31 Thread David Chinner
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 08:02:37AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 06:36:48PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: The issue was somewhat confused by people certainly *reporting* it for older kernels. Also, as part of the dirty bit cleanups and sanity checkingwe did actually

Re: How many people are using 2.6.16?

2007-01-31 Thread Steve French (smfltc)
David Chinner wrote: On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 08:02:37AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 06:36:48PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: The issue was somewhat confused by people certainly *reporting* it for older kernels. Also, as part of the dirty bit cleanups and sanity

Re: How many people are using 2.6.16?

2007-01-31 Thread Linus Torvalds
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

Re: How many people are using 2.6.16?

2007-01-30 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 06:36:48PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Mark Lord wrote: > > > > I believe our featherless leader said he though it was an ancient bug, > > exasperated by something that went into 2.6.19. > > > > If Linus's opinion is correct (still?), then

Re: How many people are using 2.6.16?

2007-01-30 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 06:36:48PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Mark Lord wrote: > > > > I believe our featherless leader said he though it was an ancient bug, > > exasperated by something that went into 2.6.19. > > > > If Linus's opinion is correct (still?), then

Re: How many people are using 2.6.16?

2007-01-30 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Mark Lord wrote: > > I believe our featherless leader said he though it was an ancient bug, > exasperated by something that went into 2.6.19. > > If Linus's opinion is correct (still?), then the bug exists in all > kernels since somewhere back in the 2.4.xx days. The

Re: How many people are using 2.6.16?

2007-01-30 Thread Mike Houston
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:52:15 +0100 Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 04:04:48PM -0500, Mike Houston wrote: > > I've been using Adrian's 2.6.16 kernel releases on two internet > > servers that I look after remotely. One of them is RHEL 4 the > > other is Fedora Core

Re: How many people are using 2.6.16?

2007-01-30 Thread Mark Lord
Adrian Bunk wrote: On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 09:13:00AM +1100, Bron Gondwana wrote: We do a lot of Cyrus which does a lot of MMAP - and we also use the Areca driver - which are both strong reasons to move to 2.6.19.2, but if the MMAP fix was ported back to 2.6.16 we might consider staying there

Re: How many people are using 2.6.16?

2007-01-30 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 04:04:48PM -0500, Mike Houston wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:30:00 -0500 > Chuck Ebbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is there any way to estimate the size of the user base for 2.6.16? > > > > e.g. how many downloads does it get? > > I've often wondered that myself,

Re: How many people are using 2.6.16?

2007-01-30 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 09:13:00AM +1100, Bron Gondwana wrote: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 04:04:48PM -0500, Mike Houston wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:30:00 -0500 > > Chuck Ebbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Is there any way to estimate the size of the user base for 2.6.16? > > > > >

Re: How many people are using 2.6.16?

2007-01-30 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 09:13:00AM +1100, Bron Gondwana wrote: On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 04:04:48PM -0500, Mike Houston wrote: On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:30:00 -0500 Chuck Ebbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to estimate the size of the user base for 2.6.16? e.g. how many

Re: How many people are using 2.6.16?

2007-01-30 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 04:04:48PM -0500, Mike Houston wrote: On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:30:00 -0500 Chuck Ebbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to estimate the size of the user base for 2.6.16? e.g. how many downloads does it get? I've often wondered that myself, as I'm

Re: How many people are using 2.6.16?

2007-01-30 Thread Mark Lord
Adrian Bunk wrote: On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 09:13:00AM +1100, Bron Gondwana wrote: We do a lot of Cyrus which does a lot of MMAP - and we also use the Areca driver - which are both strong reasons to move to 2.6.19.2, but if the MMAP fix was ported back to 2.6.16 we might consider staying there

Re: How many people are using 2.6.16?

2007-01-30 Thread Mike Houston
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:52:15 +0100 Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 04:04:48PM -0500, Mike Houston wrote: I've been using Adrian's 2.6.16 kernel releases on two internet servers that I look after remotely. One of them is RHEL 4 the other is Fedora Core 2 (Ensim

Re: How many people are using 2.6.16?

2007-01-30 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Mark Lord wrote: I believe our featherless leader said he though it was an ancient bug, exasperated by something that went into 2.6.19. If Linus's opinion is correct (still?), then the bug exists in all kernels since somewhere back in the 2.4.xx days. The issue was

Re: How many people are using 2.6.16?

2007-01-30 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 06:36:48PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Mark Lord wrote: I believe our featherless leader said he though it was an ancient bug, exasperated by something that went into 2.6.19. If Linus's opinion is correct (still?), then the bug exists

Re: How many people are using 2.6.16?

2007-01-30 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 06:36:48PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Mark Lord wrote: I believe our featherless leader said he though it was an ancient bug, exasperated by something that went into 2.6.19. If Linus's opinion is correct (still?), then the bug exists

Re: How many people are using 2.6.16?

2007-01-29 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 04:04:48PM -0500, Mike Houston wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:30:00 -0500 > Chuck Ebbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is there any way to estimate the size of the user base for 2.6.16? > > > > e.g. how many downloads does it get? > > I've often wondered that myself,

Re: How many people are using 2.6.16?

2007-01-29 Thread Mike Houston
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:30:00 -0500 Chuck Ebbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any way to estimate the size of the user base for 2.6.16? > > e.g. how many downloads does it get? I've often wondered that myself, as I'm concerned for it to continue to be maintained. I'm very appreciative

Re: How many people are using 2.6.16?

2007-01-29 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Josh Boyer wrote: > On 1/29/07, Chuck Ebbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is there any way to estimate the size of the user base for 2.6.16? >> >> e.g. how many downloads does it get? > > Are you including distros that use it as well? > Yes, if they're based on Adrian's stable series. - To

Re: How many people are using 2.6.16?

2007-01-29 Thread Josh Boyer
On 1/29/07, Chuck Ebbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there any way to estimate the size of the user base for 2.6.16? e.g. how many downloads does it get? Are you including distros that use it as well? josh - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

How many people are using 2.6.16?

2007-01-29 Thread Chuck Ebbert
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How many people are using 2.6.16?

2007-01-29 Thread Chuck Ebbert
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Re: How many people are using 2.6.16?

2007-01-29 Thread Josh Boyer
On 1/29/07, Chuck Ebbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to estimate the size of the user base for 2.6.16? e.g. how many downloads does it get? Are you including distros that use it as well? josh - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of

Re: How many people are using 2.6.16?

2007-01-29 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Josh Boyer wrote: On 1/29/07, Chuck Ebbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to estimate the size of the user base for 2.6.16? e.g. how many downloads does it get? Are you including distros that use it as well? Yes, if they're based on Adrian's stable series. - To unsubscribe

Re: How many people are using 2.6.16?

2007-01-29 Thread Mike Houston
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:30:00 -0500 Chuck Ebbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to estimate the size of the user base for 2.6.16? e.g. how many downloads does it get? I've often wondered that myself, as I'm concerned for it to continue to be maintained. I'm very appreciative of

Re: How many people are using 2.6.16?

2007-01-29 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 04:04:48PM -0500, Mike Houston wrote: On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:30:00 -0500 Chuck Ebbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to estimate the size of the user base for 2.6.16? e.g. how many downloads does it get? I've often wondered that myself, as I'm