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From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: David Mansfield <lkml@dm.cobite.com>
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Subject: Re: raid subsystem broken in 2.5.43... blockdev changes?
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On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, David Mansfield wrote:

> 
> Hi Al, list,
> 
> I think the latest blockdev (maybe the do_open) changes broke the raid
> subsystem.  In order to 'activate' a raid device, the userland tools open
> the device node (e.g. /dev/md0) to perform ioctls against it, even though
> that device isn't up and running yet.  In 2.5.43 it returns ENXIO.

	I know, patches that handle that are coming to Linus in an hour.

... going net.dead for two days didn't help any ;-/

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