Re: [PATCH] mdadm 2.5

2006-06-05 Thread Nix
On 29 May 2006, Neil Brown suggested tentatively: On Sunday May 28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - mdadm-2.4-strict-aliasing.patch fix for another srict-aliasing problem, you can typecast a reference to a void pointer to anything, you cannot typecast a reference to a struct. Why can't I

Re: Problems with device-mapper on top of RAID-5 and RAID-6

2006-06-05 Thread Nix
On 2 Jun 2006, Uwe Meyer-Gruhl uttered the following: Neil's suggestion indicates that there may be a race condition stacking md and dm over each other, but I have not yet tested that patch. I once had problems stacking cryptoloop over RAID-6, so it might really be a stacking problem. We don't