From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
To: Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysfs superblock read oops
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:45:16 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18530.55436.577183.364504@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: message from Chris Webb on Wednesday June 25
On Wednesday June 25, chris@arachsys.com wrote:
> Whilst correcting my rdev resize patch to deal with non-persistent metadata,
> I noticed that reading from /sys/block/mdX/md/rdY/super when there isn't a
> real superblock causes an oops rather than just returning zero length. The
> tiny attached patch fixes this.
You must be using a slightly old kernel. The 'super' sysfs file was removed
on 19th March 2008 and is gone since 2.6.25-rc7.
commit 0e82989d95cc46cc58622381eafa54f7428ee679
Thanks,
NeilBrown
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-25 23:45 UTC|newest]
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2008-06-24 23:35 [PATCH] sysfs superblock read oops Chris Webb
2008-06-25 23:45 ` Neil Brown [this message]
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