On Wed, 11 Jul 2012 12:40:57 +0300 Alexander Lyakas <alex.bolshoy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Neil, > can you pls clarify whether the bad block management code in existing > kernels is still considered experimental, and that's the reason there > is no mdadm 3.3.x release yet? Given that you are finding bugs in it - yes, it is still experimental :-) The reason there is no 3.3.x release yet is that the amount of stuff that I want to include in 3.3 has grown substantially and as the bad block code is clearly still buggy, I probably don't want to rush it out :-) I'm hoping for August or September for 3.3. Probably September. > If yes, which kernel do you recommend to experiment with this feature? Always the latest. > If no, should we then use the "devel-3.3" branch of mdadm, which was > last updated ~1 year ago? Yes. I'll be pulling that code into 'master' once I've finished some code-cleanup that I want to do first. Thanks, NeilBrown > > Thanks, > Alex. > > > > On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 7:51 PM, Asdo <asdo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello > > is it possible to keep mdadm 3.2 installed in the system (e.g. 3.2 as the > > monitoring daemon) and have an array with bad-block functionality (created > > with 3.3) running, or this will do a mess? > > > > Bad-block functionality is in mdadm-3.3 but this has not been released yet. > > I was thinking about using it only once to create the array. > > > > However I am still missing the manual for mdadm-3.3, where is that? without > > that I don't know how I should launch it to create an array with bad blocks. > > > > Another question: are older kernels such as 3.0 capable to run an array > > created with bad-block-log, obviously without using the bad-block-log > > functionality? oh but that could be dangerous, couldn't it... > > > > Thank you > > A. > > -- > > 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 > -- > 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
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