This is a real shame, although logical. Hopefully it can be integrated
into 2.3/2.4.... Or even a later 2.2. Does anyone have more detail about
this decision, rather than what is not going to be done.....
James
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Nick Urbanik wrote:
> 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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