Re: 2.6.11-rc4 md loops on missing drives

[Brad Campbell <brad@wasp.net.au>]

Neil Brown wrote:
> On Tuesday February 15, brad@wasp.net.au wrote:
> 
>>G'day all,
>>
>>I'm not really sure how it's supposed to cope with losing more disks than planned, but filling the 
>>syslog with nastiness is not very polite.
> 
> 
> Thanks for the bug report.  There are actually a few problems relating
> to resync/recovery when an array (raid 5 or 6) has lost too many
> devices.
> This patch should fix them.
> 

I applied your latest array of 9 patches to a vanilla BK kernel and did very, very horrible things 
to it while it was rebuilding. I can confirm that it does indeed tidy up the resync issues.

Ta!
Brad
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