linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.21rc7-mm1 usb/sysfs oops.

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Message-Id: <20070501135552.ab54be25.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Tue, 1 May 2007 13:55:52 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.21rc7-mm1 usb/sysfs oops.

On Tue, 1 May 2007 14:23:01 -0400
Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com> wrote:

> I thought I'd try something really silly, and set up
> a raid5 stripe across 3 USB memory sticks just for giggles.
> 
> it worked just fine. Then I thought I'd be *really* clever
> and see how well raid5 reconstruction over same would behave,
> and yanked one out whilst the array was still 'up'.
> 
> *boom*.

Unfortunately rc7-mm1 and rc7-mm2 had dodgy-now-dropped sysfs changes in
it, so this might be a consequence of that.

> No more being a smart-ass for me today.

Would be good to test mainline instead, and/or -mm when Tejun's new sysfs
patches appear.  And cc linux-usb-devel and linux-scsi when it goes boom.

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