From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Neil Brown Subject: Re: Suggestion needed for fixing RAID6 Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 12:29:42 +1000 Message-ID: <20100503122942.7d4db27c@notabene.brown> References: <626601cae203$dae35030$0400a8c0@dcccs> <20100423065143.GA17743@maude.comedia.it> <695a01cae2c1$a72907d0$0400a8c0@dcccs> <4BD193D0.5080003@shiftmail.org> <717901cae3e5$6a5fa730$0400a8c0@dcccs> <4BD3751A.5000403@shiftmail.org> <756601cae45e$213d6190$0400a8c0@dcccs> <4BD569E2.7010409@shiftmail.org> <7a3e01cae53f$684122c0$0400a8c0@dcccs> <4BD5C51E.9040207@shiftmail.org> <80a201cae621$684daa30$0400a8c0@dcccs> <4BD76CF6.5020804@shiftmail.org> <20100428113732.03486490@notabene.brown> <20100428121246.2ceabfd5@notabene.brown> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Mikael Abrahamsson Cc: MRK , Janos Haar , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 04:30:05 +0200 (CEST) Mikael Abrahamsson 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