Re: I vote for updated RAID and KNFSD
Fred Reimer (fwr@ga.prestige.net)
Sat, 11 Sep 1999 11:14:49 -0400
On Wed, 08 Sep 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > I was also aware of the earlier RAID thread which was clearly about 2.2.
> > > Actually, Alan included the new RAID code and Linus rejected it.
> >
> > Ok, still the point is that this thread started because of this decision.
> > Sorry if I blamed it on poor Alan...
>
> After we went over it I happen to think Linus was right to reject it. Knfsd
> is less clear - the old knfsd has problems, it is a bug fix. Im reluctant
> to do it for 2.2.13 because with the stuff in the test 2.2.13pre5 it looks
> like a bit of settling time for the fixes then it will be ready.
>
> Adding knfsd is going to add a -big- chunk of testing/fallout time.
>
> Alan
Which means that we won't get the RAID code for quite a while. Great,
I guess I can look forward to more downtime on servers if a disk fails
because of the "broken" RAID in the official kernel...
fwr
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