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Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:30:53 -0800
From: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU>
To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Patch to allow a driver to report unrecoverable write errors to the buf layer
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Thus spake Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>:
> In message <20021029185337.GA21064@HAL9000.homeunix.com>, David Schultz writes:
> 
> >IMO, the retry-forever bug is the
> >real problem, but I'm a bit skeptical that it's easy to solve
> >safely.
> 
> Just revert the commit which added it recently.

Recently?  I know that the bug was present at least six months
ago, and probably earlier as well.

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