Re: kernel panic in SoftwareRAID autodetection

2000-12-06 Thread Neil Brown
On Wednesday December 6, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Neil Brown wrote: > > > > here we have lost the "part" automatic variable in disk_name but > > > > I don't think so. Look again. Gulp... :-( Yes, your patch is indeed fine. I heartily recommend it (for whatever that is

Re: kernel panic in SoftwareRAID autodetection

2000-12-06 Thread Brian Kress
Neil Brown wrote: > > On Wednesday December 6, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Peter Samuelson wrote: > > > > > > [Roberto Ragusa] > > > > BTW, here is a little patch regarding a silly problem I found > > > > about RAID partitions naming (/proc/partitions). > > > > No more "md8" "md9" "md:" "md;"

Re: kernel panic in SoftwareRAID autodetection

2000-12-06 Thread Neil Brown
On Wednesday December 6, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Peter Samuelson wrote: > > > > [Roberto Ragusa] > > > BTW, here is a little patch regarding a silly problem I found > > > about RAID partitions naming (/proc/partitions). > > > No more "md8" "md9" "md:" "md;" ... but "md8" "md9" "md10" "md11"

Re: kernel panic in SoftwareRAID autodetection

2000-12-06 Thread Brian Kress
Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Brian Kress <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] > > I got resounding silence to posting the patch last time, so I'm not > > sure if anyone actually wants this patch, > > Well, I like it, but admittedly it's mostly in the "cleanup" category > (though it does fix the LVM name issue)

Re: kernel panic in SoftwareRAID autodetection

2000-12-06 Thread Brian Kress
Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Roberto Ragusa] > > BTW, here is a little patch regarding a silly problem I found > > about RAID partitions naming (/proc/partitions). > > No more "md8" "md9" "md:" "md;" ... but "md8" "md9" "md10" "md11" ... > > Well, this patch should work up to "md99". > > This

Re: kernel panic in SoftwareRAID autodetection

2000-12-06 Thread Brian Kress
Peter Samuelson wrote: [Roberto Ragusa] BTW, here is a little patch regarding a silly problem I found about RAID partitions naming (/proc/partitions). No more "md8" "md9" "md:" "md;" ... but "md8" "md9" "md10" "md11" ... Well, this patch should work up to "md99". This stuff *really*

Re: kernel panic in SoftwareRAID autodetection

2000-12-06 Thread Brian Kress
Peter Samuelson wrote: [Brian Kress [EMAIL PROTECTED]] I got resounding silence to posting the patch last time, so I'm not sure if anyone actually wants this patch, Well, I like it, but admittedly it's mostly in the "cleanup" category (though it does fix the LVM name issue) so at this

Re: kernel panic in SoftwareRAID autodetection

2000-12-06 Thread Neil Brown
On Wednesday December 6, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Samuelson wrote: [Roberto Ragusa] BTW, here is a little patch regarding a silly problem I found about RAID partitions naming (/proc/partitions). No more "md8" "md9" "md:" "md;" ... but "md8" "md9" "md10" "md11" ... Well,

Re: kernel panic in SoftwareRAID autodetection

2000-12-06 Thread Brian Kress
Neil Brown wrote: On Wednesday December 6, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Samuelson wrote: [Roberto Ragusa] BTW, here is a little patch regarding a silly problem I found about RAID partitions naming (/proc/partitions). No more "md8" "md9" "md:" "md;" ... but "md8" "md9"

Re: kernel panic in SoftwareRAID autodetection

2000-12-06 Thread Neil Brown
On Wednesday December 6, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neil Brown wrote: here we have lost the "part" automatic variable in disk_name but I don't think so. Look again. Gulp... :-( Yes, your patch is indeed fine. I heartily recommend it (for whatever that is worth). Your

Re: kernel panic in SoftwareRAID autodetection

2000-12-05 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Roberto Ragusa] > BTW, here is a little patch regarding a silly problem I found > about RAID partitions naming (/proc/partitions). > No more "md8" "md9" "md:" "md;" ... but "md8" "md9" "md10" "md11" ... > Well, this patch should work up to "md99". This stuff *really* should be split out into

Re: kernel panic in SoftwareRAID autodetection

2000-12-05 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 06-Dec-00, Neil Brown wrote: > The following patch isn't *correct*, but if it makes a difference for > you, then it means that we have found the problem.. please let me > know. [one line patch] Yes, it makes a difference :-) . The boot doesn't fail anymore and all the RAID partitions are

Re: kernel panic in SoftwareRAID autodetection

2000-12-05 Thread Neil Brown
On Monday December 4, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 01-Dec-00, Neil Brown wrote: > > On Friday December 1, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I found a real showstopper problem in the SoftwareRAID autodetect > >> code; 2.4.0-test10 and 2.4.0-test11 are affected (I didn't test > >> previous versions).

Re: kernel panic in SoftwareRAID autodetection

2000-12-05 Thread Neil Brown
On Monday December 4, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01-Dec-00, Neil Brown wrote: On Friday December 1, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found a real showstopper problem in the SoftwareRAID autodetect code; 2.4.0-test10 and 2.4.0-test11 are affected (I didn't test previous versions). [detailed

Re: kernel panic in SoftwareRAID autodetection

2000-12-05 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 06-Dec-00, Neil Brown wrote: The following patch isn't *correct*, but if it makes a difference for you, then it means that we have found the problem.. please let me know. [one line patch] Yes, it makes a difference :-) . The boot doesn't fail anymore and all the RAID partitions are

Re: kernel panic in SoftwareRAID autodetection

2000-12-05 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Roberto Ragusa] BTW, here is a little patch regarding a silly problem I found about RAID partitions naming (/proc/partitions). No more "md8" "md9" "md:" "md;" ... but "md8" "md9" "md10" "md11" ... Well, this patch should work up to "md99". This stuff *really* should be split out into the

Re: kernel panic in SoftwareRAID autodetection

2000-12-04 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 01-Dec-00, Neil Brown wrote: > On Friday December 1, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I found a real showstopper problem in the SoftwareRAID autodetect >> code; 2.4.0-test10 and 2.4.0-test11 are affected (I didn't test >> previous versions). [detailed report] > > Fixed in 2.4.0-test12pre3. I

Re: kernel panic in SoftwareRAID autodetection

2000-12-01 Thread Neil Brown
On Friday December 1, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Please CC to me because I'm not a LKML subscriber. > > Hi, > > I found a real showstopper problem in the SoftwareRAID autodetect > code; 2.4.0-test10 and 2.4.0-test11 are affected (I didn't test > previous versions). Fixed in 2.4.0-test12pre3.

kernel panic in SoftwareRAID autodetection

2000-12-01 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Please CC to me because I'm not a LKML subscriber. Hi, I found a real showstopper problem in the SoftwareRAID autodetect code; 2.4.0-test10 and 2.4.0-test11 are affected (I didn't test previous versions). I'm using two IDE disk with some RAIDed partitions: md5 : active raid0 hdc5[1] hda5[0]

kernel panic in SoftwareRAID autodetection

2000-12-01 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Please CC to me because I'm not a LKML subscriber. Hi, I found a real showstopper problem in the SoftwareRAID autodetect code; 2.4.0-test10 and 2.4.0-test11 are affected (I didn't test previous versions). I'm using two IDE disk with some RAIDed partitions: md5 : active raid0 hdc5[1] hda5[0]

Re: kernel panic in SoftwareRAID autodetection

2000-12-01 Thread Neil Brown
On Friday December 1, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please CC to me because I'm not a LKML subscriber. Hi, I found a real showstopper problem in the SoftwareRAID autodetect code; 2.4.0-test10 and 2.4.0-test11 are affected (I didn't test previous versions). Fixed in 2.4.0-test12pre3. If you