On 02/16/12 04:17, NeilBrown wrote: > On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:52:13 +0100 Jes.Sorensen@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >> From: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@xxxxxxxxxx> >> >> This makes super[01].c properly align buffers used for the bitmap >> using posix_memalign() to make sure the writes don't fail in case the >> bitmap is opened using O_DIRECT. >> >> This is based on https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=789898 >> and an initial patch by Alexander Murashkin. > > hi Jes, > > I suspect that > > http://neil.brown.name/git?p=mdadm;a=commitdiff;h=6ef89052d85b8137b8a7100f761d896ae6f61001 > > is the fix you want. But I'll probably apply yours as well. > > Thanks, > NeilBrown Hi Neil, Thanks, I haven't been able to reproduce the problem locally that Alexander was seeing, but I suspect you are right. That said, I'd still vote in favor of using posix_memalign() rather than doing the pointer juggling, less error prone. Cheers, Jes -- 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
