Re: 2.4.20-pre11 /proc/partitions read

From: Christoph Hellwig (hch@infradead.org)
Date: Tue Oct 22 2002 - 14:35:04 EST


On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 09:32:26PM +0200, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 04:26:35PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>
> > > No. I do not claim that his problem was caused by the stats.
> > > It is just that I get reports from people with mysterious mount
> > > and fdisk problems that go away when CONFIG_BLK_STATS is disabled.
> >
> > Could you forward?
> >
> > Thats really bad.
>
> The best reference is
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=35980
>
> with fsck affected.
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62414
>
> shows that mount is affected.

Both of those should be fixed by my patch, i.e. were caused by a bug
in fpos handling in the seq_file /proc/partions. There is nothing
about the statistics in them.

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