Re: (reiserfs) Re: New Linux 2.5 - 2.6 TODO (Alan Cox suggests delaying reiserfs integration)

From: Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Date: Sat Jun 10 2000 - 21:31:07 EST


On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Stephen Frost wrote:

> [..] if you're running software RAID now you either
>hopefully know how to patch your kernel with the raid patch [..]

You don't need any patch to get linear/raid0/raid1 to work correctly in
2.2.x.

On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>
>Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 00:49:41 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
>To: Khimenko Victor <khim@sch57.msk.ru>
>Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, D. Lance Robinson <lancer@airways.com>
>Subject: raid 2.2.x
>
>On Mon, 29 May 2000, Khimenko Victor wrote:
>
>>Just like "almost everyone" knows that you can find RAID patches... hm
>>whereever you can find them if you need working RAID in 2.2, you can find IDE
>
>What do you mean exactly with "working RAID"? If you had any problem with
>stock 2.2.x linear/raid0/raid1 I'd like to know the details. linear and
>raid0 are trivial and if they doesn't work for you, it's probably a silly
>bug that can be fixed with a few liner patch. raid1 is more complex (and
>oom deadlock prone) but it happens to work too here.
>
>There is longstanding raid5 bug report while rebuilding the parity after
>adding a spare drive to a degraded array (I assumed also reproduced with
>latest raid patches applied). The raid5 report cames from Lance so if
>there were any news that I missed please let me know. Thanks!
>
>Andrea
>
>

Andrea

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