On Monday March 26, ecashin@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I have been testing an md RAID 1 created using mdadm 2.6.1 on a > 2.6.16.35 kernel, and the initial results are encouraging. (The > 2.6.16.y kernel is a long-term stable branch, unlike most stable > kernels, which are maintained only until the next stable branch > becomes active.) > > I see bitmap-related patches with fixes for later kernels being > discussed in the linux-raid mailing list, but I do not see > bitmap-related patches in the ChangeLogs for the 2.6.16.y kernel. My > hope is that these fixes are only part of the natural churn in the > newer kernel branches and are not needed for the 2.6.16.y kernels. > > Are there any known issues that would make the use of md bitmaps in a > 2.6.16.y kernel problematic? I do see an important RAID 1 fix in > 2.6.16.40, so I know that 2.6.16.35 isn't good enough. While I try to remember to back-port any significant and relevant bugfixes to 2.6.16, I do forget sometimes.. and 2.6.16 isn't really my focus of development. If you would like to generate a list of bitmap bugfixes in later kernels, I could check and let you know how relevant they are for 2.6.16. 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
