Seth Mos wrote:
> > > o There was a stall problem where the raid would just grind to a halt,
> > > this was fixed by a kernel change in the 2.4.7-pre series. This was
> >
> >- what was the fix to the 'grind to a halt' problem? was it a patch
> >against the md code in particular, or some other part of the kernel?
>
> You would have to scour the archive for the TAKE messages of the past week.
> You can then see what files have been touched and fetch diffs from the
> webcvs frontend.
sort of... as Steve said it was fixed by a 'kernel change', all this
would amount to on the XFS list is a TAKE to sync with the latest
2.4.7-pre. I just found this in the 2.4.7 changelog:
-pre5:
...
- Neil Brown: raid5 stall fix, nfsd filehandle sanity check fix
that looks promising... I'll see what I can do with it.
> >- does anybody know if this same problem existed in the redhat 1.0.1
>
> RedHat never released a 1.0.1 (was that mothersday?).
heh. just trying to use shorthand. I did earlier refer to it as the
'redhat-based 2.4.3 1.0.1 release kernel.'
> They are beating on a 2.4.7 based tree. No exact plans or release dates for
> 1.0.2 yet.
> The chances of patching a -ac kernel are slimm ;)
that I'm well aware of - I've seen the requests for an -ac merge come in
about once a month, and I understand how much extra work that would be.
which is why I was hoping to extract that one fix. Since it looks like
the patch might be isolated to the md code, I think I have a good chance
of being able to apply it to the redhat-based kernel.
thanks,
Matt
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