Comment 24 for bug 1907262

Hi Thimo,

Thanks for writing back, great timing!

So, the new revision of the patches that we have been testing since February have just been merged into mainline. The md/raid10 patches got merged on Friday, and the dm/raid patches got merged on Saturday, and will be tagged into 5.13-rc1. There's been a few of us testing them, and we haven't seen any regressions that cause data loss or disk corruption. Things are looking okay.

If you are interested, you can see a list of the new commits on bug 1896578.

We are still planning to SRU the new revision into the Ubuntu kernels, and I have spent the day backporting the official mainline commits to the Ubuntu 5.11, 5.8, 5.4 and 4.15 kernels.

I'm currently building re-spins of the test kernels, based on more recently released Ubuntu kernels, with these official mainline patches, instead of the patches I got from the development mailing list I used in my previous set of test kernels.

I'm expecting these kernels to finish building overnight, and I will make sure to write back tomorrow morning with instructions on how to install these test kernels.

It would be great if you could give them a test before they get built into the next Ubuntu kernel update. Even when they are built into the next kernel update, I'll let you know how you can test them when they are in -proposed, before they are officially released to -updates.

I'll write back tomorrow morning with instructions on how to install the fresh test kernels.

Thanks,
Matthew