From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 06:57:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 06:57:31 -0400 Received: from nat-pool-meridian.redhat.com ([199.183.24.200]:51741 "EHLO devserv.devel.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 06:57:17 -0400 Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 11:56:51 +0100 From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" To: Ville Herva Cc: ext3-users@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Florian Lohoff Subject: Re: Oops in iput Message-ID: <20010626115651.A9176@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20010625201612.A701@paradigm.rfc822.org> <20010625194213.J18856@redhat.com> <20010626110933.R1503@niksula.cs.hut.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010626110933.R1503@niksula.cs.hut.fi>; from vherva@mail.niksula.cs.hut.fi on Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 11:09:33AM +0300 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 11:09:33AM +0300, Ville Herva wrote: > Well, I for one use the 2.2 ide patches extensively (on almost all of my > machines, including a heavy-duty backup server) It is highly hardware-dependent. A huge amount of effort was spent early in 2.4 getting blacklists and hardware tweaks right to work around problems with specific chipsets with ide udma. Just because it works for one person doesn't give you any confidence that it won't trash data for somebody else. Cheers, Stephen