Bug#678110: [squeeze] LSI 926x w/ CacheCade 2.0 Pro feature activated requires updated megaraid_sas driver module

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Hi Thomas,

Thomas Baetzler wrote:

> We've recently decided to try LSI's CacheCade Pro 2.0 software feature
> package on some systems utilizing their Megaraid 9260 controller. This
> feature package implements tiered storage that utilizes SSD drives as
> additional non-volatile cache. It has been my experience that enabling this
> feature with the standard Debian kernel leads to filesystem corruption and
> data loss.

Oh, dear.

Do you happen to know what change fixed this?

[...]
> I would like to ask that the current stable kernel package is
> upgraded to the newer driver version. If you need me to bring this
> to the attention of the upstream maintainer, please let me know.

Currently we are using the stock driver from 2.6.32.y, so notifying
upstream would be useful, yes.  Please cc either me or this bug log
when doing so so we can track it.

Thanks much for the heads up,
Jonathan