On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 01:00:25PM -0400, James Manning wrote:
> > 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
>
> Was this bug ever actually announced, discussed, kicked around, possibly
> fixed? Andrea has done some incredibly useful kernel patches in the past,
> and typically will offer patches pretty soon after identifying problems :)
I got the impression (from lkmla) that Andrea/Alan believed that something was
wrong, and Ingo argued why it wasn't (it was a paranoia sanity check inserted
in the RAID code long ago), but agreed that it might be time to start cleaning
up some of the RAID code to get rid of those really paranoid checks.
The RAID code and associated tools implement a large number of
consistency/sanity checks, and I feel completely safe about that :) But as
RAID seems stable now, and has done so for a long time, perhaps some of those
checks could be killed to make the code more readable...
Anyway, this is my interpretation of what happened. I may be wrong and I may
not.
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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : And I see the elder races, :
:.........................: putrid forms of man :
: Jakob Østergaard : See him rise and claim the earth, :
: OZ9ABN : his downfall is at hand. :
:.........................:............{Konkhra}...............:
