From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Guy <bugzilla@watkins-home.com>
Cc: 'Ruth Ivimey-Cook' <Ruth.Ivimey-Cook@ivimey.org>,
linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH md 2 of 4] Fix raid6 problem
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 10:07:28 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42026860.1000409@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200502031743.j13Hha910546@www.watkins-home.com>
Guy wrote:
> Would you say that the 2.6 Kernel is suitable for storing mission-critical
> data, then?
Sure. I'd trust 2.6 over 2.4 at this point.
> I ask because I have read about a lot of problems with data corruption and
> oops on this list and the SCSI list. But in most or all cases the 2.4
> Kernel does not have the same problem.
I haven't seen any problems like that, including on kernel.org, which is
definitely a high demand site.
> Who out there has a RAID6 array that they believe is stable and safe?
> And please give some details about the array. Number of disks, sizes, LVM,
> FS, SCSI, ATA and anything else you can think of? Also, details about any
> disk failures and how well recovery went?
The one I have is a 6-disk ATA array (6x250 GB), ext3. Had one disk
failure which hasn't been replaced yet; it's successfully running in
1-disk degraded mode.
I'll let other people speak for themselves.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-03 18:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200502031145.j13Bj1fl016074@terminus.zytor.com>
2005-02-03 16:39 ` [PATCH md 2 of 4] Fix raid6 problem H. Peter Anvin
2005-02-03 16:59 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2005-02-03 17:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-02-03 17:43 ` Guy
2005-02-03 18:07 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2005-02-03 19:36 ` Gordon Henderson
2005-02-04 9:04 ` Andrew Walrond
2005-02-04 11:19 ` Gordon Henderson
2005-02-04 18:31 ` Mike Hardy
2005-02-13 21:05 ` Mark Hahn
2005-02-13 21:19 ` Gordon Henderson
2005-02-14 4:56 ` Tim Moore
2005-02-14 9:42 ` Andrew Walrond
2005-02-13 22:58 ` Mike Hardy
2005-02-13 23:14 ` Richard Scobie
2005-02-06 3:38 ` Tim Moore
2005-02-14 4:49 ` Tim Moore
2005-02-14 8:09 ` Gordon Henderson
2005-02-14 4:27 ` Tim Moore
2005-02-14 8:05 ` Gordon Henderson
2004-11-03 23:56 A. James Lewis
2004-12-09 0:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-12-09 0:35 ` Jim Paris
[not found] ` <200412090021.iB90L4MK014200@terminus.zytor.com>
2005-01-23 14:02 ` A. James Lewis
2005-01-23 14:42 ` Kevin P. Fleming
2005-02-03 2:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-02-03 17:13 ` Andy Smith
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-11-02 3:37 [PATCH md 0 of 4] Introduction NeilBrown
2004-11-02 3:37 ` [PATCH md 2 of 4] Fix raid6 problem NeilBrown
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