From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 17:39:48 +0200 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.3.99-pre6-7 VM rebalanced Message-ID: <20000430173948.A26377@fred.muc.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from Alan Cox on Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 05:27:51PM +0200 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Alan Cox Cc: Sasi Peter , riel@nl.linux.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu List-ID: On Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 05:27:51PM +0200, Alan Cox wrote: > > The problem with this is that even if the kernel is in .99 pre-release > > state for several weeks _nothing_ has been changed in it about the RAID > > stuff still, so a lot of people using 2.2 + raid 0.90 patch (eg. RedHat > > users) _cannot_ change to and try 2.3.99, because their partitions would > > not mount. > > > > It seems to me, that if we are talking about widening the testbase for > > 2.3.99, this is the most important item on Alan's todo list. > > In some ways it probably is. Almost every production site I would feed stuff > to is using raid 0.90 and some of them are now using ext3 as well. Here I have similar problems with reiserfs (a lot of sites use it already, upto reiserfs root). So far the 2.3 port cannot read 2.2 file systems. Andi -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/