On Monday September 8, bluca@comedia.it wrote: > On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 05:06:53PM +1000, Neil Brown wrote: > >You could get mdadm 1.3.0, add some patches from > > http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/patch/applied/ > > just a silly question: > > 003MdSuperFix > Status: ok > Make sure unused superblock descriptor entries aren't failed. > This confuses 2.4 kernel code. > > do you mean that without this patch 2.4 kernel gets confused > > or do you mean that this patch is harmful for 2.4 > The patch modifies --update=summaries to make some further normalisations of the superblock. At least one superblock has been seen in the wild that was not correct (i.e. had unused descriptors that were marked 'failed') and this superblock confused 2.4 badly. i.e. with this patch it is possible to fix a rare condition that confused 2.4 I hope that makes it reasonably clear :-) NeilBrown > regards, > L. > > -- > Luca Berra -- bluca@comedia.it > Communication Media & Services S.r.l. > /"\ > \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN > X AGAINST HTML MAIL > / \ - 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
