From: Mike Tran <mhtran@us.ibm.com>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH md 0 of 4] Introduction
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 03:27:08 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1110360427.6552.9.camel@langvan2.homenetwork> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16942.27336.208536.334897@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Hi Neil,
On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 21:17, Neil Brown wrote:
> On Monday March 7, akpm@osdl.org wrote:
> > NeilBrown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> wrote:
> > >
> > > The first two are trivial and should apply equally to 2.6.11
> > >
> > > The second two fix bugs that were introduced by the recent
> > > bitmap-based-intent-logging patches and so are not relevant
> > > to 2.6.11 yet.
> >
> > The changelog for the "Fix typo in super_1_sync" patch doesn't actually say
> > what the patch does. What are the user-visible consequences of not fixing
> > this?
>
> -------
> This fixes possible inconsistencies that might arise in a version-1
> superblock when devices fail and are removed.
>
> Usage of version-1 superblocks is not yet widespread and no actual
> problems have been reported.
> --------
EVMS 2.5.1 (http://evms.sf.net) has provided support for creation of MD
arrays using version-1 superblock. Some of EVMS users actually tried to
use this new functionality. You probably remember I posted a problem
and a patch to fix version-1 superblock update code.
We will continue to test and will report any problems.
--
Regards,
Mike T.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-09 9:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-08 5:50 [PATCH md 0 of 4] Introduction NeilBrown
2005-03-08 5:50 ` [PATCH md 3 of 4] Initialise sync_blocks in raid1 resync NeilBrown
2005-03-08 5:50 ` [PATCH md 1 of 4] Fix typo in super_1_sync NeilBrown
2005-03-08 5:50 ` [PATCH md 2 of 4] Erroneous sizeof use in raid1 NeilBrown
2005-03-08 5:50 ` [PATCH md 4 of 4] Fix md deadlock due to md thread processing delayed requests NeilBrown
2005-03-08 6:10 ` [PATCH md 0 of 4] Introduction Andrew Morton
2005-03-09 3:17 ` Neil Brown
2005-03-09 9:27 ` Mike Tran [this message]
2005-03-08 12:49 ` Peter T. Breuer
2005-03-08 17:02 ` Paul Clements
2005-03-08 19:05 ` Peter T. Breuer
2005-03-09 5:07 ` Neil Brown
2005-03-09 15:37 ` Peter T. Breuer
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2004-11-02 3:37 NeilBrown
2004-09-03 2:20 NeilBrown
2004-08-23 3:10 NeilBrown
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