Mike Lovell <mike.lovell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > we have a number of systems that have a large number of software > arrays running. its in the couple hundred range. we have been using a > custom built kernel based on 3.4 but are wanting to update to a > mainline kernel and have been experimenting with 4.4. the systems are > running recent centos 6 releases but we have been downgrading the > mdadm version from 3.3.2 in 6.7 to a custom build 3.2.6. we installed > the downgraded version due to a problem with array numbering. i > emailed the list a while ago explaining the issue and submitting a > patch to fix [1]. i never heard anything back and since we had a > simple fix i didn't follow up on it. [snip] > what do you all think? > > thanks > mike > > [1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-raid&m=142387809409798&w=2 Staying consistent in using dev_t rather than casting back and forth to int seems a reasonable fix to apply to mdadm. It obviously won't change the issues with the newer kernels, but I don't see any reason why we shouldn't apply that fix to mdadm. Neil any thoughts on this? 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
