Alexandre Hautequest wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I canīt apply the 2.2.10 raid patches and apply the diff to 2.2.11. Got
> many failed patches and error in init/main.c. I need to wait a
> specific-version of the patch, is some fix planned to this release, or i
> need to continue w/ 2.2.10?
Here is a quote from my mail to this list entitled, "Re: Am I about to detroy
all my data, or get raid 1?"
4. Alan Cox and Linus have decided to drop raid 0.90 from the kernels
for now. The latest kernel with raid 0.90 support is 504080 Aug 18
00:08 patch-2.2.12-final.bz2. The one that comes after that (even
more final?): 418815 Aug 20 07:24 patch-2.2.12-final3.bz2 is
smaller because (sniff sniff ;-( the raid code is lomotomised;
5. On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Nope. Enable auto-detection in the kernel (compiled in, or use
an
> > initrd) and you don't need any initscripts for raid.
> > I vote to leave it in.
> > (if this is a vote, otherwise, whatever. :)
> Andrea found a possible bug in the 0.90 raid code, and the more I
looked the
> less happy I was. Finally Linus thinks merging it is a bad idea.
So that
> discussion is settled
So has Andrea Arcangeli (?) told raid developers what the bug is,
The executive summary is: get patch-2.2.12-final.bz2.
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