Re: Kernel 2.6.22-rc3 safe to migrate to?

From: Justin Piszcz
Date: Sat Jun 02 2007 - 20:27:33 EST




On Sun, 3 Jun 2007, Christian Kujau wrote:

On Sat, 2 Jun 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote:
On Sat, 2 Jun 2007, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
XFS currently has a data-corrupting bug, where files which were appended
by small amounts may lose their updates on umount - I see this
corrupting hg repos. There's a patch which works for me, and is in
2.6.22-rc3-mm1, but it hasn't been merged upstream yet.

Just for the record, you mean this one:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/12/93 ..right? (haven't been bitten by this one...yet)

Ah that's it- and USB appears to be broken as well, I'll stick with 2.6.21.3 for now.

Got any pointers? I'm using USB right now, one is i386 with 2.6.22-rc3, another one is powerpc, tracking -git and USB seems to work.

C.
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Sent this in another e-mail to LKML, it breaks support for my UPS: