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author | Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> | 2006-05-15 04:21:33 +0000 |
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committer | Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> | 2006-05-15 04:21:33 +0000 |
commit | 1bfdbe01ff300ebbf92d68c15722d2ba861aac3b (patch) | |
tree | cc0f64dabdaddf62383a377f317ad0e2b94dc9ce /ChangeLog | |
parent | 8686f3ed069671e5cbf8660cfd73c92b066563d0 (diff) | |
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Limit size of bitmap to 2million chunks.
When creating a file bitmap, choose a default size that
results in fewer than 2^21 chunks. Without this kmalloc
failure in the kernel becomes likely.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
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@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ Changes Prior to this release DegradedArray) generates an Email. - Assume "DEVICE partitions" if no DEVICE line is given. - Support new 'offset' layout for raid10. + - When creating a bitmap file, choose a chunksize to limit number + of bitmap chunks to 2 million. More than this can cause kmalloc + failure. Changes Prior to 2.4.1 release - Honour --write-mostly when adding to an array without persistent |