On Monday March 7, akpm@xxxxxxxx wrote: > NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > The first two are trivial and should apply equally to 2.6.11 > > > > The second two fix bugs that were introduced by the recent > > bitmap-based-intent-logging patches and so are not relevant > > to 2.6.11 yet. > > The changelog for the "Fix typo in super_1_sync" patch doesn't actually say > what the patch does. What are the user-visible consequences of not fixing > this? ------- This fixes possible inconsistencies that might arise in a version-1 superblock when devices fail and are removed. Usage of version-1 superblocks is not yet widespread and no actual problems have been reported. -------- > > > Is the bitmap stuff now ready for Linus? I agree with Paul - not yet. I'd also like to get a bit more functionality in before it goes to Linus, as the functionality may necessitate in interface change (I'm not sure). Specifically, I want the bitmap to be able to live near the superblock rather than having to be in a file on a different filesystem. 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
