From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Shaohua Li Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] mdadm: bad block support for external metadata - initialization Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 12:23:16 -0700 Message-ID: <20161026192316.wntpx6jcyay756j7@kernel.org> References: <1476968626-19233-1-git-send-email-tomasz.majchrzak@intel.com> <20161020140220.GB17867@www5.open-std.org> <20161020142611.GA23120@proton.igk.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Jes Sorensen Cc: Tomasz Majchrzak , keld@keldix.com, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 02:00:47PM -0400, Jes Sorensen wrote: > Tomasz Majchrzak writes: > > I cannot see how badblocks program is related to this patch. It is a generic > > code for bad blocks support in IMSM metadata. It introduces 64-bit value for > > sector address, the same size as in kernel. All it does is syncing kernel bad > > block list with raid metadata. > > > > Tomek > > I was waiting for this response, but you cut me off the CC list so > missed it. > > In this case I'll go ahead and apply these patches to mdadm. Thomasz, So your original kernel patch to support bad block for external metadata writes '-blocked' to state. We agreed it's not required later and the applied kernel patches don't support that interface. Don't you need change of the mdadm patches? Thanks, Shaohua