linux-kernel - Re: [v2.6.34-stable 035/165] md: Fix handling for devices from 2TB to 4TB in 0.90 metadata.

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Message-ID: <1345091073.824.244.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk>
Date:	Thu, 16 Aug 2012 05:24:33 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>
Cc:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [v2.6.34-stable 035/165] md: Fix handling for devices from 2TB
 to 4TB in 0.90 metadata.

On Thu, 2012-08-16 at 06:46 +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 15:46:19 -0400 Paul Gortmaker
> <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com> wrote:
> 
> > From: NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>
> > 
> >                    -------------------
> >     This is a commit scheduled for the next v2.6.34 longterm release.
> >     http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/paulg/longterm-queue-2.6.34.git
> >     If you see a problem with using this for longterm, please comment.
> 
> This patch fixes one problem but unfortunately introduces another.
> The patch for that 'other' should get sent to linus in the next day or so
> after it has had a chance to sit in -next for a bit.
> 
> It can be found at:
>  http://neil.brown.name/git?p=md;a=commitdiff;h=30b798a352052b07c924956dda4ce720b00af711
> 
> you could either add that patch, or drop this patch until the next cycle.
[...]

This was already backported to 2.6.32, 2.6.33 and 3.0.  So please change
the last sentence of the commit message for your following fix; it will
be needed for all active stable series.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
I say we take off; nuke the site from orbit.  It's the only way to be sure.

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