From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Ben Slusky <sluskyb@paranoiacs.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jariruusu@users.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] loop.c patches, take two
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 22:33:32 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031221223332.5c625592.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031221195534.GA4721@fukurou.paranoiacs.org>
Ben Slusky <sluskyb@paranoiacs.org> wrote:
>
> Well, it appears that neither my loop.c patches nor Andrew's were merged
> into 2.6.0... I'd request that my patches be merged into mainline,
> since Jari Ruusu has pointed out that Andrew's patch (which removes the
> separate code path for block-backed loop devices) will break journaling
> filesystems on loop devices. Right now, journaling FS's on file-backed
> loop devices are kinda iffy (they will work only if the underlying FS is
> also journaled, with the correct journal options) but journaling FS's
> on block-backed loop devices work perfectly. Andrew's patches would
> break this.
I'm not sure how important this is?
Remember that one of the reasons for dropping the block-backed special case
was that it ran like crap under heavy load. It locked up, iirc. Has that
been fixed here?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-22 6:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-30 13:41 [PATCH] remove useless highmem bounce from loop/cryptoloop Ben Slusky
2003-10-30 18:14 ` Jari Ruusu
2003-10-30 21:30 ` Andrew Morton
2003-10-31 0:52 ` Ben Slusky
2003-10-31 9:55 ` Andrew Morton
2003-10-31 9:55 ` Andrew Morton
2003-10-31 9:58 ` Andrew Morton
2003-11-13 3:06 ` Ben Slusky
2003-11-01 0:26 ` Ben Slusky
2003-11-02 20:46 ` Ben Slusky
2003-12-21 19:55 ` [PATCH] loop.c patches, take two Ben Slusky
2003-12-21 20:07 ` Ben Slusky
2003-12-21 20:49 ` Mika Penttilä
2003-12-21 21:12 ` Ben Slusky
2003-12-21 23:00 ` Mika Penttilä
2003-12-21 23:05 ` Ben Slusky
2003-12-21 23:51 ` Mika Penttilä
2003-12-21 22:01 ` Christophe Saout
2003-12-22 6:33 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2003-12-22 23:32 ` Ben Slusky
2003-10-31 12:15 ` [PATCH] remove useless highmem bounce from loop/cryptoloop Jari Ruusu
2003-10-31 13:02 ` Jens Axboe
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2003-12-22 1:21 ` [PATCH] loop.c patches, take two Andi Kleen
2003-12-22 1:30 ` Christophe Saout
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