From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269347AbUJKXgT (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Oct 2004 19:36:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269352AbUJKXgT (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Oct 2004 19:36:19 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:42714 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269347AbUJKXf6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Oct 2004 19:35:58 -0400 Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 16:35:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: James Bottomley cc: Andre Tomt , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.9-rc4 - pls test (and no more patches) In-Reply-To: <1097522974.2029.161.camel@mulgrave> Message-ID: References: <416A53D3.9020002@tomt.ne t> <1097507381.2029.40.camel@mulgrave> <416ACF5E.80407@tomt.net> <1097522974.2029.161.camel@mulgrave> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, James Bottomley wrote: > > Yes, well, that's one of the things that worries me slightly ... no-one > has reported the data corruption that the patch claims to fix. That's > one of the reasons I was planning to take it through the normal cycle. Well, as far as I can tell from the patch, the only way to get data corruption from the bug is when you use the SCSI ioctl's at the same time as the disk is busy. In other words, I think you'd have to do some special disk management, or possibly try to burn a CD on a SCSI CD-ROM (or other special device that uses the SCSI ioctl's) on the same controller. And nobody uses SCSI CD-burners any more, I'd think. Linus