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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.5.66-bk12 causes "rpm" errors
Date: 07 Apr 2003 15:17:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1049725059.2967.62.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1049727199.894.60.camel@localhost>

On Llu, 2003-04-07 at 15:53, Robert Love wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 07:45, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> > I've forwarded the report to the RH RPM maintainer to look into. I know
> > the non NPTL cases are ok because I never run Red Hat kernels except in
> > the install process. If there are subtle NPTL differences anything is of
> > course possible
> 
> Someone reported it was an issue with O_DIRECT, which I guess is also
> possible.

Confirmed by RH people. Its a problem with how rpm misuses O_DIRECT. When
non NPTL is in use the problem doesn't occur. So its an RPM bug, problems
to redhat not Linus 8)


  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-07 15:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-07  1:18 Robert P. J. Day
2003-04-07  1:32 ` Andrew Morton
2003-04-07  1:41   ` Robert Love
2003-04-07  1:47     ` Robert Love
2003-04-07 11:45       ` Alan Cox
2003-04-07 14:53         ` Robert Love
2003-04-07 14:17           ` Alan Cox [this message]
2003-04-07  1:49     ` Robert Love
2003-04-07  2:59       ` J Sloan
2003-04-07 12:07     ` Robert P. J. Day
2003-04-07  2:04   ` Robert P. J. Day
2003-04-07  1:28     ` Andrew Morton
2003-04-07  3:15       ` Robert Love
2003-04-07  3:19         ` Robert Love
2003-04-07  3:29         ` Andrew Morton
2003-04-07  3:35           ` Robert Love
2003-04-07  9:05 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2004-04-20  8:10 Fred Shaul

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