On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 04:30:05 +0200 (CEST) Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 28 Apr 2010, Neil Brown wrote: > > > There are lots of places that say "raid5" where it could apply to raid4 > > or raid6 as well. Maybe I should change them all to 'raid456'... > > That sounds like a good idea, or just call it "raid:" or "raid4/5/6". > > Don't know where we are in the stable kernel release cycle, but it would > be super if this could make it in by next cycle, this code is handling the > fault scenario that made me go from raid5 to raid6 :) > We are very close to release of 2.6.34. I won't submit this before 2.6.34 is released as it is not a regression and not technically a data-corruption bug. However it will go into 2.6.35-rc1 and but submitted to -stable for 2.6.34.1 and probably other -stable kernels. 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