Followup to: <38038.212.158.231.74.1099526180.squirrel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> By author: "A. James Lewis" <james@xxxxxxxxxx> In newsgroup: linux.dev.raid > > I'd like to put raid6 to use, and after reading through the process of > tracking down this bug, it seems that a rational explanation was found for > the data corruption, and the fix well tested... but being new to a lot of > the process here, what is the process for this to get into the standard > kernel... perhaps 2.6.10 will have this patch?? > > Obviously I could apply the patch to raid6main.c on my system, but it > would be good to use a standard kernel... > > The problem is only when writing to a degraded array, but most of us are > impatient and want to write a filesystem and get it mounted before the > first sync is complete... and those, like me cursed with bad hardware will > have 2 drives fail at the same time (last week!) and hence raid6 is very > appealing :). > Hi James, This patch got integrated in, I believe, 2.6.10-rc2. Please let me know what your experience is. It would be good to get the EXPERIMENTAL tag taken off at some point. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
