Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Am Dienstag, 11. Oktober 2005 11:35 schrieb Eugene Crosser: > Lars Ellenberg wrote: > >>>>(for now: kernel 2.6.10 and 2.6.11.something, smp, drbd 0.7.11 and > >>> > >>> ^^^^^^^^^ > >>> > >>>But you applied the bio_clone fix, did you? > >> > >>Nope. Because (1) on other systems, I am running 2.6.10 without that > >>fix without any problem > > > > as long as there is nothing involved that uses bio clones, > > it does not affect you. > > > > drbd uses them all the time. > > There *is* drbd on the system that runs 2.6.10 kernel *without* > bio_clone() fix. Works perfectly under rather high load. Miracle? Maybe. The bio_clone bug was introduced in kernel version 2.6.11-rc2 (see http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/7/28/230) and fixed in 2.6.12.4 so it wouldn't be a miracle it's working in 2.6.10 without fix and not working in 2.6.11.12...