[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#595050: Bug#595050: Warning about ext4 kernel bug

Felix Geyer debfx-pkg at fobos.de
Mon Sep 6 08:28:58 UTC 2010


 On 03.09.2010 10:22, Michael Meskes wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 07:30:35PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
>   
>> I said the kernel should be fixed if it is broken.  The warning
>> doesn't say precisely what the bug is, so I don't know.  It is shown
>> if the file system ist ext4 or XFS, independently of the kernel
>> version. 8-(
>>     
> The way I understand the kernel bug tracking this bug seems to exist in all
> newer version and will (hopefully) be fixed in 2.6.36. What I don't understand
> is why the warning should be removed. For current kernels it is still valid.
>   
The bug is fixed in 2.6.36.

We might want to hide the warning as most users won't care
if VirtualBox uses the host I/O cache or not and it automatically
does the right thing (uses host cache on ext4).






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