On Saturday January 17, jfaulkne@ccs.neu.edu wrote:
>
> Oops, sorry about that, you are right, on older kernels md2 is setup
> using raidstart in the Gentoo boot scripts, not during the autodetection
> phase. As a matter of fact, the dmesg output for older kernels (included
> below) is very similar to what I posted earlier.
>
> However, there is still a behavioral change here. On 2.6.1-mm2 and below,
> I did not have to run "raidstop /dev/md2" before running "raidstart
> /dev/md2". On 2.6.1-mm4 I do. I'm not sure if this change is intentional
> or not, and of course its not a big deal for me to modify my boot scripts.
>
Ok, that makes sense. I was a bit over-enthusiasitic with on of the
patches that I recently submitted. This call the do_md_stop really is
needed after all.
Thanks,
NeilBrown
----------- Diffstat output ------------
./drivers/md/md.c | 4 +++-
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff ./drivers/md/md.c~current~ ./drivers/md/md.c
--- ./drivers/md/md.c~current~ 2004-01-16 20:34:48.000000000 +1100
+++ ./drivers/md/md.c 2004-01-18 16:03:23.000000000 +1100
@@ -1766,8 +1766,10 @@ static void autorun_array(mddev_t *mddev
printk("\n");
err = do_md_run (mddev);
- if (err)
+ if (err) {
printk(KERN_WARNING "md :do_md_run() returned %d\n", err);
+ do_md_stop(mddev, 0);
+ }
}
/*
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