Re: Sun disklabels (Was: Re: RELEASE: RAID-0,1,4,5 patch...)

1999-01-28 Thread David S. Miller
Date:Fri, 29 Jan 1999 03:43:20 +0100 From: Sverker Wiberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MOLNAR Ingo wrote: > > - James W. Laferriere's <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> BSD disklabels compilation fix Is this to avoid nuking BSD disklabels on raided disks?. If so, is anyone working on Sun di

Sun disklabels (Was: Re: RELEASE: RAID-0,1,4,5 patch...)

1999-01-28 Thread Sverker Wiberg
MOLNAR Ingo wrote: > > - James W. Laferriere's <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> BSD disklabels compilation fix Is this to avoid nuking BSD disklabels on raided disks?. If so, is anyone working on Sun disklabels? I'm a bit tired of being told by fdisk -l that "Disk doesn't contain any valid partition table" fo

[BUG] v2.2.0 heavy writing at raid5 array kills processes

1999-01-28 Thread Markus Linnala
v2.2.0 heavy writing at raid5 array kills processes randomly, including init. Normal user can force random processes to out of memory situation when writing stuff at raid5 array. This makes the raid I get 'Out of memory for init. ' etc. with following simple command: dd if=/dev/zero of=file

Re: Re[2]: empty_zero_page definition clash in 2.0.36

1999-01-28 Thread MOLNAR Ingo
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Evgeny Stambulchik wrote: > > (just pedantic, but the right fix is to make it (char *) not (unsigned > > char *), because this is how it was defined and used previously. > > Hmm, I also used signed at the beginning, but then looked into 2.2.0 sources and > there it's unsi

Re[2]: empty_zero_page definition clash in 2.0.36

1999-01-28 Thread Evgeny Stambulchik
MOLNAR Ingo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -#define PARAM empty_zero_page > > +#define PARAM ((unsigned char *)empty_zero_page) > > (just pedantic, but the right fix is to make it (char *) not (unsigned > char *), because this is how it was defined and used previously. Hmm, I also used s

Re: empty_zero_page definition clash in 2.0.36

1999-01-28 Thread MOLNAR Ingo
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Evgeny Stambulchik wrote: > Usually, asm/pgtable.h is not sourced in setup.c, but with the latest raid > patch, AND if compiled for SMP, it is. Here is a fix (non-Intel archs may need > something similar, too): this is already fixed in the 19980128 RAID patch. (this should

empty_zero_page definition clash in 2.0.36

1999-01-28 Thread Evgeny Stambulchik
Hello, linux/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c defines extern char empty_zero_page[PAGE_SIZE]; whereas in include/asm-i386/pgtable.h we see: extern unsigned long empty_zero_page[1024]; Usually, asm/pgtable.h is not sourced in setup.c, but with the latest raid patch, AND if compiled for SMP, it is. He

RELEASE: RAID-0,1,4,5 patch 1999.01.28, 2.2.0/2.0.36

1999-01-28 Thread MOLNAR Ingo
hi everybody, i've just released Linux-RAID 1999.01.28, which is mainly a port to the official 2.2.0 tree. You can find raid0145-19990128-2.0.36, raid0145-19990128-2.2.0 and raidtools-19990128-0.90.tar.gz in the usual alpha directory: http://www..kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/raid/

raid0145-19990108-2.2.0

1999-01-28 Thread Luca Berra
hello, you can find mingo's raid0145-19990108 ported to kernel 2.2.0 on http://www.comedia.it/bluca/raid/ you can also find a raid patch wich applies over 2.2.0 with devfs v90 i only added a missing MD_EXPORT_SYMBOL(mddev_map) to drivers/block/md.c (Ingo, please note) enjoy, L. -- Luca Berra