Re: Linux 2.2.12pre

Andrew Kieschnick (andrewklists@austin.rr.com)
Tue, 17 Aug 1999 22:34:15 -0500 (CDT)


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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