Would you recommend to apply this package http://neilb.web.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/patches/linux-devel/2.6/2005-02-18-00/patch-all-2005-02-18-00 To a 2.6.10 kernel? Thank you for a bery good raid tool :) "NeilBrown" <neilb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> skrev i meddelandet news:20050218111131.790.patches@xxxxxxxxxxx > > 9 patches for md in 2.6.11-rc3-mm2 follow. > > 1 - tightens up some locking to close a race that is extremely unlikely > to happen (famous last words). It can only happen when failed devices > are > being removed. > 2 - Fixes a resync related problem for raid5 and raid6 arrays that have > lost more devices than they can cope with. > 3 - Fixes a clumsy test that has very little real effect (just a printk). > > These three can be considered stable. > > 4,5 Improve handling of 'safemode' which is where we mark the superblock > clean whenever there have been no writes for a little while, and mark > it dirty before the next write. > 6-9 Introduce "bitmap based intent logging" which allows a file to > store - as a bitmap - all block that may have been written recently. > This allow resync to be optimised, which is more important as drives > get larger. > > These should not be considerred stable - certainly actually using > the bitmap mode (which requires a 2.0 series version of mdadm) should > be seen as 'experimental'. > > mdadm-2.0-devel-1 was released today. > > NeilBrown > - > 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 > - 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
