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Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:31:28 -0400
From: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>
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To: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>, Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Heinz Mauelshagen <mauelshagen@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: dm stripe: Fix bounds
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Define 'handle it correctly'?  The correct thing to do is for dm to 
accept the values and work properly.  dmraid only passes the parameters 
to dm from the on disk data structure created by the bios.

Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 12:01:21AM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote:
>> now dmraid fails to configure the dm 
>> table because this patch rejects it.
>  
>> I believe the correct thing to do is to special case the last stripe in 
>> 0-31    64-67
>> 32-63   68-71
>  
> AFAIK current versions of dmraid handle this correctly - Heinz?
> 
> Alasdair

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