Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 9/8 Backport recent 2.6 IDE updates to 2.4.x | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 17 Aug 2003 20:20:12 +0100 |
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On Sul, 2003-08-17 at 20:17, Erik Andersen wrote: > IDE layer was reverted to a "late 2.4.19-pre-acX version" and has > been gone ever since... Any particular reason the baby was > tossed out with the proverbial bathwater?
In theory the device mapper can do the work ide-raid is doing and do it better. That was the plan anyway
> Anyway, this patch fixes up the 2.4.x ide raid drivers so they > compile up with the latest and greatest. I will leave it to > others to decide if the pdcraid and silraid superblocks might > be located somewhere past the capacity of an unsigned long...
The 2.4 block layer has a 32bit block limit so if it does they'll have to use 2.6 anyway. Looks fine
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