mdadm and kernel versions - what is safe and what is desirable?

mdadm and kernel versions - what is safe and what is desirable?

[Maurice Hilarius]

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I wonder which kernel version number is "needed" to prepare and run a 
well behaved mdadm RAID?

Reason I ask:
I am setting up a pair of Intel SS4200-EHW NAS boxes  with OpenFiler 2.3
I am planning to set up RAID5 on one and RAID10 on the other one.
Openfiler installs kernel 2.6.26-8


I see from reading here that apparently a number of bugs and issues have 
been resolved with later kernels



What would YOU do?
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Re: mdadm and kernel versions - what is safe and what is desirable?

[Bill Davidsen]

Maurice Hilarius wrote:
> I wonder which kernel version number is "needed" to prepare and run a 
> well behaved mdadm RAID?
>
> Reason I ask:
> I am setting up a pair of Intel SS4200-EHW NAS boxes  with OpenFiler 2.3
> I am planning to set up RAID5 on one and RAID10 on the other one.
> Openfiler installs kernel 2.6.26-8
>
>
> I see from reading here that apparently a number of bugs and issues 
> have been resolved with later kernels
>
>
>
> What would YOU do?

Raid-5 should be stable, 2.6.27 runs raid-10 fine (this VM runs on a 
2.6.27 host). I think that kernel should work as long as you use it as 
intended.

-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  "We can't solve today's problems by using the same thinking we
   used in creating them." - Einstein