Re: RAID problem with 2.2.16, w/patch

[Chip Salzenberg]

According to Santiago Garcia Mantinan:
> 2.2.15 used to run without problems, but when today I patched to 2.2.16 I
> got an error scrolling all the way up the console, it reads like this:
>     VFS: Grow buffers: size=XXXX
> This looks to me as something is broken with raid [...]

This is a known erratum in 2.2.16.  Here is a patch that reverts the
problematic RAID change:

Index: drivers/block/md.c
*************** static int do_md_run (int minor, int rep
*** 447,452 ****
    factor = min = 1 << FACTOR_SHIFT(FACTOR((md_dev+minor)));
    
-   md_blocksizes[minor] <<= FACTOR_SHIFT(FACTOR((md_dev+minor)));
- 
    for (i=0; i<md_dev[minor].nb_dev; i++)
      if (md_dev[minor].devices[i].size<min)
--- 447,450 ----

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