Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Sep 2006 16:52:35 +0200 (MEST) | From | Mikael Pettersson <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.x libata resync |
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On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 18:05:20 +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote: >> >>Oh there are tons of SATA bug fixes that 2.4.x is missing. One of the >> >>biggest is the completely crappy exception handling. If a SATA device >> >>is unplugged or spazzes out, the system may or may not recover. >> > >> >Already encountered on sata_nv in a sun x2100 :-) >> > >> >Jeff, I did not want to blindly merge patches from 2.6 to 2.4, but if >> >you point me to a few ones you consider important, I'm willing to merge >> >them. >> >> As was hinted, it's not that easy, otherwise someone would have done it >> by now. libata bug fixes require infrastructure that isn't present on >> 2.4. The overall codebase is just too different to easily pull out >> select bug fixes. > >Of course for those. I was thinking about those which just change one >register or things like this that I cannot identify the expected effect. >If you agree, I'll enumerate the ones I've already noticed so that you >just have to say yes/no/unknown on them. Don't worry, I don't want to >spend lots of hours on this, since as I said, I do not receive any >feedback from SATA users on 2.4 (neither positive nor negative).
Here's some positive feedback: My leafnode News server (a 440BX chipset mobo with a Tualatin PIII-S) has been using Promise SATA PCI cards (currently a SATA300 TX2plus) for its disk storage since the SATA update patch was made available for 2.4.29. It's been fast and reliable the entire time.
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