On March 12, skormilo@nortelnetworks.com wrote: > Neil, > > Are these patches safe to apply against 2.4 kernels? No. There have been lots of changes since 2.4. Some patches might conceptually apply, but they would need a bit of work to make them actually apply. > > It looks like one or more of these might reduce the chances of the > kernel oops I experience on occasion when manipulating arrays. Would this be when removing a recently-failed device? That can still oops. I should send in a patch for that... > > Also, this appears to change some of the way rebuilds are done, and am > interested to see if this impacts some of the rebuild performance issues > I've been seeing. These patches are about management, not performance. They won't affect rebuild performance at all. It is already quite good in 2.4 I believe. But maybe my experience is different from your. NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
