Re: 2.5.70-mm2

[Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>]

"John Stoffel" <stoffel@lucent.com> wrote:
>
> >>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com> writes:
> 
> >> . A couple more locking mistakes in ext3 have been fixed.
> 
> Andrew> But not all of them.  The below is needed on SMP.
> 
> Any hint on when -mm3 will be out,

About ten hours hence, probably.

> and if it will include the RAID1 patches?

I have a raid0 patch from Neil, but no raid1 patch.  I saw one drift past,
from Zwane (I think), but wasn't sure that it worked.  If someone has a
raid1 fix, please send it.

> I haven't had time to play with -mm2, and all the stuff
> floating by about problems has made me a bit hesitant to try it out.

Welll ext3 has been a bit bumpy of course.  It's getting better, but I
haven't yet been able to give it a 12-hour bash on the 4-way.  Last time I
tried a circuit breaker conked; it lasted three hours but even ext3 needs
electricity.  But three hours is very positive - it was hard testing.

I'm not testing RAID at present, partly because I'm too stoopid to
understand mdadm and partly because the box-with-18-disks heats the room up
too much.  This needs to change, because of possible interaction between
the IO scheduler work and software RAID.

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