Hi!
I'm a bit disappointed Martin Benes Patches are not included.
We are running now 3 systems based on 19990309 + his patches
+ 2.0.36, and everything worked fine - from setting up
to recovering RAID1. Another RAID5 system is working fine,
but I did not really stress it till now.
Though "Alpha" for the disk-IO-systems should mean something
different than "Alpha" for a GUI-application and though I
can't judge how many parts in the code remain "ugly", I'm
pretty happy with the way things work by now.
What makes me most unhappy is that I have to tell our guys
to
- take the kernel 2.0/2.x
- add the alpha patches
- add the Martin Bene patches on top on the alpha stuff
just to get a kernel like we need it.
To conclude, I suppose if the stuff is still considered to
be alpha, it might be not such a high risk to merge Martins
patches in.
My personal experience was: RAID1/5 is reliable and working!
Congratulation and thanks,
Georg
