Re: [ 094/127] md: make sure metadata is updated when spares areactivated or removed.

From: Ben Hutchings
Date: Fri Sep 28 2012 - 18:53:58 EST


On Fri, 2012-09-28 at 13:34 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 3.0-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
>
> ------------------
>
> From: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx>
>
> commit 6dafab6b1383e912cd252fa809570b484eb6e0dc upstream.
[...]
> This is suitable for -stable as out-of-data metadata could lead
> to data corruption.
> This is only relevant for 3.3 and later 9when 'replacement' as
> introduced.
[...]

Assuming Neil hasn't changed his mind about this, it should therefore
not be applied to 3.0.

Ben.

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