Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Aug 1999 22:34:15 -0500 (CDT) | From | Andrew Kieschnick <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.2.12pre |
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On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Steve Dodd wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 04:32:08PM +0000, Marc Mutz wrote: > > > > RAID had been upraded to 0.90 in the 2.2.12pre series. > > <snip> > > > This may be a pain, but it is necessary, IMHO. > > <snip> > > > No. I strongly vote to remove raid-0.90 from 2.2.12 again, because it > > breaks user space semantics so heavily. > > AIUI, the raid stuff wasn't in 2.2.11, so adding it can't break anything. If > you've been smoking strange patches, then you have to pay attention when > switching to or from the vanilla branch. If your vendor added something to > the kernel which you rely on, you should probably wait for an update from > your vendor if you're not prepared to keep an eye out for problems.
Your understanding is flawed. :) 2.2.11 contains raid-0.36.6. raid-0.90 requires new userland tools, and requires arrays made with the old version to be converted before using them. A bit of a pain if you've been using raid-0.3x...
later, Andrew Kieschnick
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