From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Farkas Levente Subject: Re: with the latest mdadm Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 16:35:23 +0100 Message-ID: <43E8BE3B.5010301@bppiac.hu> References: <43E86468.8030508@bppiac.hu> <17384.26402.724978.284042@cse.unsw.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <17384.26402.724978.284042@cse.unsw.edu.au> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Neil Brown Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Neil Brown wrote: > On Tuesday February 7, lfarkas@bppiac.hu wrote: > >>hi, >>with the latest mdadm-2.3.1 we've got the following message: >>------------------------------------- >>md: md4: sync done. >>RAID1 conf printout: >> --- wd:2 rd:2 >> disk 0, wo:0, o:1, dev:sda2 >> disk 1, wo:0, o:1, dev:sdb2 >>md: mdadm(pid 8003) used obsolete MD ioctl, upgrade your software to use >>new ictls. >>------------------------------------- >>this is just a warning or some kind of problem with mdadm? > > > This is with a 2.4 kernel, isn't it. no. it's rhel latest kernel 2.6.9-22.0.2.ELsmp. > The md driver is incorrectly interpreting an ioctl that it doesn't > recognise as an obsolete ioctl. In fact it is a new ioctl that 2.4 > doesn't know about (I suspect it is GET_BITMAP_FILE). > > The message should probably be removed from 2.4, but as 2.4 is in > deep-maintenance mode, I suspect that is unlikely.... it's 2.6:-( -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"