"Also sprach Molle Bestefich:" [Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > Peter T. Breuer wrote: > > We can't do a HOT_REMOVE while requests are outstanding, as far as I > > know. > > Actually, I'm not quite sure which kind of requests you are talking about. Only one kind. Kernel requests :). They come in read and write flavours (let's forget about the third race for the moment). > Also, there's been relatively recent changes to this code: > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-raid&m=108075865413863&w=2 That's 2004 and is about the inclusion of the bitmapping code into md/raid. We're years beyond there. What I'm talking about presupposes all those changes in the raid layers, and laments that it's still missing one more thing that was in the FR1/5 patches .. namely the ability for the underlying device to communicate with the md layer about its state of health, taking itself in and out of the array as appropriate. Peter - 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
