From: "Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
To: Fruhwirth Clemens <clemens-dated-1056970281.42e9@endorphin.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Initial Vector Fix for loop.c.
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 13:03:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030620110357.GC28711@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030620105120.GA2450@ghanima.endorphin.org>
On Fri, 20 June 2003 12:51:20 +0200, Fruhwirth Clemens wrote:
>
> Let's see. If there is flag based fix and we make the old behavior default
> we will trick many new users into using the old broken IV metric. If we make
> the new metric default the user can't mount his old images.
Unless he starts thinking and reads up how it works in 2.6.
> As there is no autodetection for default behavior, there will be no way to
> avoid the pain. Well, almost. We could allocate a new major for a different
> metric, and create /dev/loop-ng*. That'd be feasible, but actually just a
> pain transfer .. from the user to the developer :)
I don't see a problem with that, assuming there are more users than
developers. :)
Jörn
--
Do not stop an army on its way home.
-- Sun Tzu
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-20 10:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20030620090612.GA1322@ghanima.endorphin.org.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2003-06-20 9:30 ` Andi Kleen
2003-06-20 10:14 ` Fruhwirth Clemens
2003-06-20 10:24 ` Andi Kleen
2003-06-20 10:33 ` Fruhwirth Clemens
2003-06-20 10:35 ` Jörn Engel
2003-06-20 10:49 ` Andi Kleen
2003-06-20 10:52 ` Andi Kleen
2003-06-20 11:15 ` Fruhwirth Clemens
2003-06-20 10:51 ` Fruhwirth Clemens
2003-06-20 11:03 ` Jörn Engel [this message]
2003-06-21 2:18 ` Jan Rychter
2003-06-24 18:22 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-06-20 17:56 ` Andrew Morton
2003-06-20 18:14 ` David S. Miller
2003-06-20 19:04 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-06-20 13:38 Fruhwirth Clemens
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2003-06-20 9:06 Fruhwirth Clemens
2003-06-20 9:23 ` Andrew Morton
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