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Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 13:38:11 -0700
From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: Define conflict between ext3 and raid patches against 2.2.19
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On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 09:08:32PM +1000, Neil Brown wrote:
> On Sunday September 16, mfedyk@matchmail.com wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm trying to setup a 2.2 kernel that I can use for comparison to the latest
> > 2.4 kernels I've been testing, but I came accross a little problem with the
> > patches I've been trying to combine.
> > 
> > I've already applied:
> > ide.2.2.19.05042001.patch
> > linux-2.2.19.kdb.diff
> > linux-2.2.19.ext3.diff
> > 
> > And now I'm trying to apply raid-2.2.19-A1, and I get one reject in
> > include/linux/fs.h.
> 
> You should be aware that ext3 (and other journalling filesystems) do
> not work reliably over RAID1 or RAID5 in 2.2.  Inparticular, you can
> get problems when the array is rebuilding/resyncing.
> 
> But if you only plan to use ext3 with raid0 or linear, you should be
> fine.
> 

Can you point me to an archive that describes how to trigger this bug?

Was it in linux-raid or ext3-users or ...?

Mike