Re: Issues with md raid 1 on kernel 6.18 after booting kernel 6.19-rc1 once

Paul Menzel <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.raid
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Dear Kuai,


Am 17.12.25 um 08:17 schrieb Yu Kuai:

> 在 2025/12/17 15:13, BugReports 写道:
>> 
>> ...
>> 
>> We'll have to backport following patch into old kernels to make
>> new arrays to assemble in old kernels. ....
>> 
>> The md array which i am talking about was not created with kernel 
>> 6.19, it was created sometime in 2024.
>> 
>> It was just used in kernel 6.19 and that broke compatibility with
>> my 6.18 kernel.
> 
> I know, I mean any array that is created or assembled in new kernels
> will now have lsb field stored in metadata. This field is not
> defined in old kernels and that's why array can't assembled in old
> kernels, due to unknown metadata.
> 
> This is what we have to do for new features, and we're planning to
> avoid the forward compatibility issue with the above patch that I
> mentioned.
Is there really no way around it? Just testing a new kernel and being 
able to go back must be supported in my opinion, at least between one or 
two LTS versions.


Kind regards,

Paul
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