Re: Suggestion needed for fixing RAID6

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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
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