Re: usb-storage on SMP?

From: Alan Cox
Date: Mon Jan 17 2005 - 13:54:00 EST


On Llu, 2005-01-17 at 17:26, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Monday, 17 of January 2005 18:17, Thomas Zehetbauer wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > can anyone confirm that writing to usb-storage devices is working on SMP
> > systems?
>
> Generally, it is. Recently, I've written some stuff to a USB pendrive (using
> 2.6.10-ac7 or -ac9).

I'm dumping stuff to large hard disks via USB2 with 2.6.9 and 2.6.10
reliably. With 2.4.x until very late and with 2.6.early it would hang
reliably. It now seems pretty solid. It does panic the box if you remove
the drive while its in use which IMHO is *bad* but thats harder to fix.

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