Messages in this thread | | | From | Christian Borntraeger <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] rd: Mark ramdisk buffers heads dirty | Date | Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:48:56 +0200 |
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Am Dienstag, 16. Oktober 2007 schrieb Nick Piggin: > While I said it was a good fix when I saw the patch earlier, I think > it's not closing the entire hole, and as such, Christian's patch is > probably the way to go for stable.
That would be my preferred method. Merge Erics and my fixup for 2.6.24-rc. The only open questions is, what was the reiserfs problem? Is it still causes by Erics patches?
> For mainline, *if* we want to keep the old rd.c around at all, I > don't see any harm in this patch so long as Christian's is merged > as well. Sharing common code is always good.
While the merge window is still open, to me the new ramdisk code seems more like a 2.6.25-rc thing. We actually should test the behaviour in low memory scenarios. What do you think?
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