On Thursday, Sep 9, 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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>On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Paul Jimenez wrote:
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>> This patch is based on the md.c that shipped with the 2.2.11 kernel; it
>> calls md_stop() on all RAID partitions still around at shutdown/reboot
>> time, which allows one to have a small (non-RAID) /boot partition with
>> a kernel on it and a larger (RAID1) partition that's /.
>
>auto-stop has been in the newest driver for a long time. The RAID1 code in
>stock 2.2.11 is considered old and buggy (eg. in the case of disk failure)
Then why's it still there? Why isn't this newer code you refer to there?
>- it's recommended to upgrade to the newest RAID driver and do an mkraid
>--upgrade.
where do I get this? Is that site mentioned in the kernel docs someplace?
I find it highly disturbing that the kernel contains known broken code
without even a reference to the existence, much less the location, of
fixed code. Is the newer code at least someplace in the 2.3.x tree?
--pj
