On Sunday November 1, jnelson-linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sun November 1 2009, NeilBrown wrote: > > >> Reshaping to a new chunksize is possible with the latest mdadm and > >> kernel, but I would recommend waiting for mdadm-3.1.1 and 2.6.32. > >> With the current code, a device failure during reshape followed by an > >> unclean shutdown while reshape is happening can lead to unrecoverable > >> data loss. Even a clean shutdown before the shape finishes in that case > >> might be a problem. > > Do you know if the stable series 2.6.31.XX incorporates the appropriate fixes? They haven't been written yet..... The kernel change is very small I think so it will go in to -stable. But I want to write the mdadm changes first (which are bigger) and be sure I don't need any other kernel changes. 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
