Re: 2.5.66-bk12 causes "rpm" errors

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
07 Apr 2003 15:17:40 +0100


On Llu, 2003-04-07 at 15:53, Robert Love wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 07:45, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > I've forwarded the report to the RH RPM maintainer to look into. I know
> > the non NPTL cases are ok because I never run Red Hat kernels except in
> > the install process. If there are subtle NPTL differences anything is of
> > course possible
>
> Someone reported it was an issue with O_DIRECT, which I guess is also
> possible.

Confirmed by RH people. Its a problem with how rpm misuses O_DIRECT. When
non NPTL is in use the problem doesn't occur. So its an RPM bug, problems
to redhat not Linus 8)

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