From: Eric Sandeen Subject: Re: Integrating patches in SLES10 e2fsprogs Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:54:45 -0600 Message-ID: <479E08D5.3040609@redhat.com> References: <20080124211728.GA24900@webber.adilger.int> <20080127050543.GC24842@mit.edu> <20080128153802.GB17752@mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Matthias Koenig , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, hvogel@suse.de, Girish Shilamkar , Eric Sandeen To: Theodore Tso Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:53216 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751474AbYA1QzL (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:55:11 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20080128153802.GB17752@mit.edu> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Theodore Tso wrote: > On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 04:26:53PM +0100, Matthias Koenig wrote: >>> Patch6: e2fsprogs-mdraid.patch >>> >>> This apparently adds a new environment variable, >>> BLKID_SKIP_CHECK_MDRAID, which forces blkid to not detect mdraid >>> devices. I'm not sure why. >> Workaround for people having stale RAID signature on their disk: >> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=100530 > > Hmm... there's got to be a better way around this. Won't help existing block devices, but it'd be nice to have a common library which could be called @ mkfs time to wipe out all known signatures... mkfs.xfs tries to do this, but it'd be silly to duplicate in every mkfs. > On my "one of these days" list is to get another cheap/used laptop so > I can try out the latest Fedora Core Rawhide without having to fire up > a huge (noisy) x86_64 box.... Just partition... ;) -Eric