Re: How many people are using 2.6.16?

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Mark Lord wrote:
> 
> I believe our featherless leader said he though it was an ancient bug,
> exasperated by something that went into 2.6.19.
> 
> If Linus's opinion is correct (still?), then the bug exists in all
> kernels since somewhere back in the 2.4.xx days.

The issue was somewhat confused by people certainly *reporting* it for 
older kernels. Also, as part of the dirty bit cleanups and sanity 
checkingwe did actually seem to fix a long-standing CIFS corruption (and 
apparently reisertfs/XFS problems too).

But the *common* case was actually introduced with 2.6.19, and 2.6.16 
wouldn't be affected. 

			Linus
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