Fedora Core 5 common issues and bugs

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Thu Mar 30 16:28:08 UTC 2006


On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 11:11:28AM -0500, Peter Jones wrote:
> Even if we could affect the same change on the mounted case, it'd mean
> slower installs and everybody would complain about it.  What's needed is
> for readahead to be fixed so that you don't get an error (or bogus data)
> unless you actually ask for a sector that should result in error.  What
> you're saying is to disable readahead entirely.

Its long fixed and Pavel's testing yesterday confirms that if you use
ide-scsi or libata it appears it all works fine. I've asked Pavel if he
wants to test the patches we have (and dropped) that fixed it earlier in 2.6
and verify they do likewise/clean them up.





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