On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Adam McKenna wrote:
> 2) If I do, will it still broken unless I apply the "2.2.16combo" patch?
> 3) If it will, then how do I resolve the problem with the md.c hunk failing
> with "2.2.16combo"?
If I remember correctly, 2.2.16combo was there to make it possible to use
Ingo's older raid patches on 2.2.16 (before raid-2.2.16-A0 was released).
I'm not 100% sure, though.
> This is a production system I am working on here. I can't afford to have it
> down for an hour or two to test a new kernel. I'd rather not be working with
> this mess to begin with, but unfortunately this box was purchased before I
> started this job, and whoever ordered it decided that software raid was
> "Good enough".
A test machine comes in handy. Not to actually test the new RAID code (we
did/do that already ;) ), but just to train handling of SW raid.
> I am not subscribed to either list so CC's are desirable. However if you
> don't want to CC then you don't have to -- I'll just read the archives.
> That is, if someone fixes the "Mailing list archives" link on www.linux.org
> to point to someplace that exists and actually has archives.
IMHO, if you need (or want) to work with SW raid, it would be better to
subscribe. It's not all that much traffic here and (usually) the stuff we
get here is relevant (with exception of too many questions on patches
location, but that should be fixed anyway). Besides, any real problems,
bug reports, warnings appear here very soon.
D.
