From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
Cc: MRK <mrk@shiftmail.org>, Janos Haar <janos.haar@netcenter.hu>,
linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Suggestion needed for fixing RAID6
Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 12:29:42 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100503122942.7d4db27c@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.1004280421450.6768@uplift.swm.pp.se>
On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 04:30:05 +0200 (CEST)
Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se> wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Apr 2010, Neil Brown wrote:
>
> > There are lots of places that say "raid5" where it could apply to raid4
> > or raid6 as well. Maybe I should change them all to 'raid456'...
>
> That sounds like a good idea, or just call it "raid:" or "raid4/5/6".
>
> Don't know where we are in the stable kernel release cycle, but it would
> be super if this could make it in by next cycle, this code is handling the
> fault scenario that made me go from raid5 to raid6 :)
>
We are very close to release of 2.6.34. I won't submit this before 2.6.34 is
released as it is not a regression and not technically a data-corruption
bug. However it will go into 2.6.35-rc1 and but submitted to -stable for
2.6.34.1 and probably other -stable kernels.
NeilBrown
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-03 2:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-22 10:09 Suggestion needed for fixing RAID6 Janos Haar
2010-04-22 15:00 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2010-04-22 15:12 ` Janos Haar
2010-04-22 15:18 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2010-04-22 16:25 ` Janos Haar
2010-04-22 16:32 ` Peter Rabbitson
[not found] ` <4BD0AF2D.90207@stud.tu-ilmenau.de>
2010-04-22 20:48 ` Janos Haar
2010-04-23 6:51 ` Luca Berra
2010-04-23 8:47 ` Janos Haar
2010-04-23 12:34 ` MRK
2010-04-24 19:36 ` Janos Haar
2010-04-24 22:47 ` MRK
2010-04-25 10:00 ` Janos Haar
2010-04-26 10:24 ` MRK
2010-04-26 12:52 ` Janos Haar
2010-04-26 16:53 ` MRK
2010-04-26 22:39 ` Janos Haar
2010-04-26 23:06 ` Michael Evans
[not found] ` <7cfd01cae598$419e8d20$0400a8c0@dcccs>
2010-04-27 0:04 ` Michael Evans
2010-04-27 15:50 ` Janos Haar
2010-04-27 23:02 ` MRK
2010-04-28 1:37 ` Neil Brown
2010-04-28 2:02 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2010-04-28 2:12 ` Neil Brown
2010-04-28 2:30 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2010-05-03 2:29 ` Neil Brown [this message]
2010-04-28 12:57 ` MRK
2010-04-28 13:32 ` Janos Haar
2010-04-28 14:19 ` MRK
2010-04-28 14:51 ` Janos Haar
2010-04-29 7:55 ` Janos Haar
2010-04-29 15:22 ` MRK
2010-04-29 21:07 ` Janos Haar
2010-04-29 23:00 ` MRK
2010-04-30 6:17 ` Janos Haar
2010-04-30 23:54 ` MRK
[not found] ` <4BDB6DB6.5020306@sh iftmail.org>
2010-05-01 9:37 ` Janos Haar
2010-05-01 17:17 ` MRK
2010-05-01 21:44 ` Janos Haar
2010-05-02 23:05 ` MRK
2010-05-03 2:17 ` Neil Brown
2010-05-03 10:04 ` MRK
2010-05-03 10:21 ` MRK
2010-05-03 21:04 ` Neil Brown
2010-05-03 21:02 ` Neil Brown
[not found] ` <4BDE9FB6.80309@shiftmai! l.org>
2010-05-03 10:20 ` Janos Haar
2010-05-05 15:24 ` Suggestion needed for fixing RAID6 [SOLVED] Janos Haar
2010-05-05 19:27 ` MRK
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