From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Tran Subject: Re: [PATCH md 0 of 4] Introduction Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 03:27:08 -0600 Message-ID: <1110360427.6552.9.camel@langvan2.homenetwork> References: <20050308165021.3745.patches@notabene> <20050307221006.16806431.akpm@osdl.org> <16942.27336.208536.334897@cse.unsw.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <16942.27336.208536.334897@cse.unsw.edu.au> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Hi Neil, On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 21:17, Neil Brown wrote: > On Monday March 7, akpm@osdl.org wrote: > > NeilBrown 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.