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DISCUSSION Michael Stumpf 3 participants 3 messages Dec 16, 2004 – Dec 17, 2004 MD RAID

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mdadm 1.8.1 is segfaulting on red hat linux 7.3. Kernel is 2.4.18smp5. Happened when I try to assemble a 3 drive array with only 2 drives.

Not important to me; I just downgraded to 1.2.0 and it worked like a champ, but I figured I'd throw that out there as an FYI.

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Quoted 6 lines · On Thursday December 16, [email protected] wrote:

mdadm 1.8.1 is segfaulting on red hat linux 7.3. Kernel is 2.4.18smp5. Happened when I try to assemble a 3 drive array with only 2 drives.

Not important to me; I just downgraded to 1.2.0 and it worked like a champ, but I figured I'd throw that out there as an FYI.

Why don't people read the release notes?

From "ANNOUNCE-1.8.1":

This is a "development" release of mdadm. It should *not* be considered stable and should be used primarily for testing. The current "stable" version is 1.8.0.

I guess I should release a "1.9.0" and use "1.8.2 ..." for devel releases.

NeilBrown

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Quoted 2 lines · Neil Brown

Why don't people read the release notes?

Do you really need to ask? :)

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From "ANNOUNCE-1.8.1":

This is a "development" release of mdadm. It should *not* be considered stable and should be used primarily for testing. The current "stable" version is 1.8.0.

I guess I should release a "1.9.0" and use "1.8.2 ..." for devel releases.

It might be an idea to create "dev" and "production" branches.

Personally, I read the original 1.8.1 announcement on this list and stayed with 1.8.0, but I can see how others, accustomed to the usual high quality of your releases would think that 1.8.1 would be as stable as 1.8.0.

How about 1.x.y-dev or 1.x.y-bzz (eg b20 b=beta)?

R.

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