On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 04:55:08AM -0800, Adam J. Richter wrote:
> Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes, in response to a request by
> Jason Titus about getting >2GB file support and raid-0.90:
> >2.4 will surely have an up-to-date raid implementation.
>
> Features are supposed to get into the "stable" branch like
> 2.4 by first being implemented in an "experimental" 2.3.x or 2.5.x
> branch. As far as I can tell, nobody has taken this step, so you
> should not be on raid 0.90 being available in 2.4.
[ These are fuzzy recollections from around Sept 1999 ]
The RAID 0.90 code interacts badly with the new page-cache
system, and its problems are of same type (I recall) as
RAMDISK has/had.
I think there are/were also some lock recursion problems when
going thru FS->BDEV->RAID->BDEV->DEVICE layers.
(After all, RAID looks like a DEVICE for the generic BDEV
layer which FSes use..)
Ask Ingo for more info.
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