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From: James Bottomley
Subject: Re: [BUGFIX 2/2] gdth: bugfix for the Timer at exit crash
Date: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 8:44 am

On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 19:40 +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote:

This piece doesn't look right.  gdth_flush() forces the internal cache
to disk backing.  If you remove it, you're taking the chance that the
machine will be powered off without a writeback which can cause data
corruption.

James


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[BUG?] GDTH driver not working after upgrade to 2.6.24, Sven Köhler, (Wed Jan 30, 12:47 pm)
Re: [BUG?] GDTH driver not working after upgrade to 2.6.24, Boaz Harrosh, (Thu Jan 31, 3:08 am)
Re: [BUG?] GDTH driver not working after upgrade to 2.6.24, Sven Köhler, (Thu Jan 31, 4:07 am)
Re: [BUG?] GDTH driver not working after upgrade to 2.6.24, Boaz Harrosh, (Thu Jan 31, 5:35 am)
Re: [BUG?] GDTH driver not working after upgrade to 2.6.24, Jan Engelhardt, (Thu Jan 31, 9:39 am)
Re: [BUG?] GDTH driver not working after upgrade to 2.6.24, Boaz Harrosh, (Thu Jan 31, 9:52 am)
[BUGFIXES 0/2] gdth: fix 2.6.24 driver breakage , Boaz Harrosh, (Tue Feb 12, 10:30 am)
[BUGFIX 1/2] gdth: scan for scsi devices, Boaz Harrosh, (Tue Feb 12, 10:35 am)
[BUGFIX 2/2] gdth: bugfix for the Timer at exit crash, Boaz Harrosh, (Tue Feb 12, 10:40 am)
Re: [BUGFIX 1/2] gdth: scan for scsi devices, Christoph Hellwig, (Tue Feb 12, 11:05 am)
Re: [BUGFIX 2/2] gdth: bugfix for the Timer at exit crash, Stefan Priebe - alli ..., (Wed Feb 13, 12:06 am)
Re: [BUGFIX 2/2] gdth: bugfix for the Timer at exit crash, Boaz Harrosh, (Wed Feb 13, 2:03 am)
Re: [BUGFIX 2/2] gdth: bugfix for the Timer at exit crash, Boaz Harrosh, (Wed Feb 13, 3:48 am)
Re: [BUGFIX 2/2] gdth: bugfix for the Timer at exit crash, James Bottomley, (Wed Feb 13, 8:44 am)
Re: [BUGFIX 2/2] gdth: bugfix for the Timer at exit crash, Boaz Harrosh, (Wed Feb 13, 8:54 am)
Re: [BUGFIX 2/2] gdth: bugfix for the Timer at exit crash, Boaz Harrosh, (Wed Feb 13, 9:33 am)
[PATCH ver2] gdth: bugfix for the at-exit problems, Boaz Harrosh, (Wed Feb 13, 9:35 am)
Re: [BUGFIX 2/2] gdth: bugfix for the Timer at exit crash, James Bottomley, (Wed Feb 13, 9:45 am)
Re: [BUGFIX 2/2] gdth: bugfix for the Timer at exit crash, Boaz Harrosh, (Wed Feb 13, 9:50 am)
Re: [BUGFIX 2/2] gdth: bugfix for the Timer at exit crash, James Bottomley, (Wed Feb 13, 10:03 am)
Re: [BUGFIX 2/2] gdth: bugfix for the Timer at exit crash, Boaz Harrosh, (Wed Feb 13, 10:12 am)
Re: [BUGFIX 2/2] gdth: bugfix for the Timer at exit crash, Boaz Harrosh, (Wed Feb 13, 10:18 am)
Re: [BUGFIX 2/2] gdth: bugfix for the Timer at exit crash, James Bottomley, (Wed Feb 13, 10:33 am)
Re: [BUGFIX 2/2] gdth: bugfix for the Timer at exit crash, James Bottomley, (Wed Feb 13, 10:36 am)
Re: [BUGFIX 2/2] gdth: bugfix for the Timer at exit crash, Jan Engelhardt, (Wed Feb 13, 12:38 pm)
Re: [BUGFIX 2/2] gdth: bugfix for the Timer at exit crash, Christoph Hellwig, (Wed Feb 13, 11:51 pm)
Re: [BUGFIX 2/2] gdth: bugfix for the Timer at exit crash, Boaz Harrosh, (Thu Feb 14, 3:49 am)
[PATCH] gdth: bugfix for the at-exit problems, Boaz Harrosh, (Thu Feb 14, 4:58 am)
Re: [BUGFIX 2/2] gdth: bugfix for the Timer at exit crash, Boaz Harrosh, (Thu Feb 14, 8:58 am)
Re: [PATCH] gdth: bugfix for the at-exit problems, James Bottomley, (Thu Feb 14, 9:10 am)
Re: [PATCH] gdth: bugfix for the at-exit problems, Boaz Harrosh, (Thu Feb 14, 9:18 am)