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

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Fri Sep 28 2012 - 19:58:10 EST


On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 12:51:04AM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> 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.

Neil, is this true?

greg k-h
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