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@ 2005-02-18  0:40 NeilBrown
  2005-02-18  0:40 ` [PATCH md 7 of 9] Optimised resync using Bitmap based intent logging NeilBrown
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From: NeilBrown @ 2005-02-18  0:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Morton; +Cc: linux-raid


9 patches for md in 2.6.11-rc3-mm2 follow.

1 - tightens up some locking to close a race that is extremely unlikely
    to happen (famous last words).  It can only happen when failed devices are
    being removed.
2 - Fixes a resync related problem for raid5 and raid6 arrays that have
    lost more devices than they can cope with.
3 - Fixes a clumsy test that has very little real effect (just a printk).

These three can be considered stable.

4,5 Improve handling of 'safemode' which is where we mark the superblock
    clean whenever there have been no writes for a little while, and mark 
    it dirty before the next write.
6-9 Introduce "bitmap based intent logging" which allows a file to 
    store - as a bitmap - all block that may have been written recently.
    This allow resync to be optimised, which is more important as drives
    get larger.

These should not be considerred stable - certainly actually using
the bitmap mode (which requires a 2.0 series version of mdadm) should
be seen as 'experimental'.

mdadm-2.0-devel-1  was released today.

NeilBrown

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2005-02-18  0:40 ` [PATCH md 8 of 9] raid1 support for bitmap intent logging NeilBrown
2005-02-18  0:40 ` [PATCH md 5 of 9] Improve locking on 'safemode' and move superblock writes NeilBrown
2005-02-18  0:40 ` [PATCH md 6 of 9] Improve the interface to sync_request NeilBrown
2005-02-18  0:40 ` [PATCH md 3 of 9] Remove kludgy level check from md.c NeilBrown
2005-02-18  0:40 ` [PATCH md 4 of 9] Merge md_enter_safemode into md_check_recovery NeilBrown
2005-02-18  0:40 ` [PATCH md 9 of 9] Optimise reconstruction when re-adding a recently failed drive NeilBrown
2005-02-18  0:51   ` Mike Hardy
2005-02-18  0:58     ` Neil Brown
2005-02-18  0:40 ` [PATCH md 2 of 9] Make raid5 and raid6 robust against failure during recovery NeilBrown
2005-02-18 14:25 ` [PATCH md 0 of 9] Introduction Phantazm
2005-02-20 22:55   ` Neil Brown

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