Hi Neil, On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 21:17, Neil Brown wrote: > 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. > -------- EVMS 2.5.1 (http://evms.sf.net) has provided support for creation of MD arrays using version-1 superblock. Some of EVMS users actually tried to use this new functionality. You probably remember I posted a problem and a patch to fix version-1 superblock update code. We will continue to test and will report any problems. -- Regards, Mike T. - 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
