Re: Define conflict between ext3 and raid patches against 2.2.19

[Neil Brown]

On Sunday September 16, [e-mail] wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to setup a 2.2 kernel that I can use for comparison to the latest
> 2.4 kernels I've been testing, but I came accross a little problem with the
> patches I've been trying to combine.
> 
> I've already applied:
> ide.2.2.19.05042001.patch
> linux-2.2.19.kdb.diff
> linux-2.2.19.ext3.diff
> 
> And now I'm trying to apply raid-2.2.19-A1, and I get one reject in
> include/linux/fs.h.

You should be aware that ext3 (and other journalling filesystems) do
not work reliably over RAID1 or RAID5 in 2.2.  Inparticular, you can
get problems when the array is rebuilding/resyncing.

But if you only plan to use ext3 with raid0 or linear, you should be
fine.

NeilBrown