Re: RAID is a matter of availability, not data security

Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron.nl)
24 Aug 1999 23:36:09 +0200

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In article <cistron.37C2FF6D.57FC6B92@heliosam.fr>,
Hubert Tonneau <hubert.tonneau@heliosam.fr> wrote:
>So what I wanted to express is that if you say the new code is not perfect,
>so we don't include it, it has to be balanced with the fact that not including
>the code means ignoring hardware failures.

Including new code in development kernels is fine, but not in maintenance
releases of a stable kernel series if it is not backward compatible enough.

Linus wants 2.4 out by Christmas. So make sure the new RAID code gets
into 2.3 if it isn't already.

Mike.

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