From: Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: a general question re. linux-raid stability
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 11:35:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C98D0C7.2000607@meetinghouse.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C987A77.7050903@seoss.co.uk>
Tim Small wrote:
> On 20/09/10 23:27, Miles Fidelman wrote:
>> I've been watching patch after patch go by on this list, which leads
>> me to wonder - how stable are the basic raid kernel modules, and
>> mdadm, as included in major linux distributions (in my case, Debian
>> Lenny)?
> Pretty good - we use it on a few tens of servers. Overall we find it
> easier to manage, and more reliable than hardware RAID...
>
> Debian definitely gets updates - although the Debian team could
> probably do with more help keeping tabs on them. Two good
> cross-reference sources are probably this list, and the RHEL kernel
> update changelogs.....
>
> tim@zebedee:~$ cat /etc/debian_version
> 5.0.6
> tim@zebedee:~$ zgrep -i raid
> /usr/share/doc/linux-image-2.6.26-2-amd64/changelog.Debian.gz | egrep
> -v '(aacraid|megaraid|cpq|5c1|dm|DM|cciss|LVM|sym)'
> - md: handle writes to broken raid10 arrays gracefully
> - md: raid10: fix use-after-free of bio
> - md: Fix raid10 recovery problem.
> - md: Avoid oops when attempting to fix read errors on raid10
Uh oh. Now I am worried. I've been running 2.6.26-2-xen-686, on a
couple of production machines, for a while now, on top of RAID10 - and
that version of the kernel doesn't get a lot of attention.
Sigh...
Miles Fidelman
--
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In<fnord> practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-21 15:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-18 1:42 [PATCH 1/2] PPC4xx: Generelizing drivers/dma/ppc4xx/adma.c tmarri
2010-09-18 21:09 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-09-18 21:09 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-09-20 18:00 ` Tirumala Marri
2010-09-20 18:00 ` Tirumala Marri
2010-09-20 21:31 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-09-20 21:31 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-09-20 22:27 ` a general question re. linux-raid stability Miles Fidelman
2010-09-21 2:19 ` Daniel Reurich
2010-09-21 9:27 ` Tim Small
2010-09-21 15:35 ` Miles Fidelman [this message]
2010-09-21 17:00 ` Andre Tomt
2010-09-19 20:00 ` [PATCH 1/2] PPC4xx: Generelizing drivers/dma/ppc4xx/adma.c Ilya Yanok
2010-09-21 16:51 ` Tirumala Marri
2010-09-23 20:22 ` Dan Williams
2010-09-23 20:22 ` Dan Williams
2010-09-23 22:39 ` Tirumala Marri
2010-09-24 6:58 ` Stefan Roese
2010-09-24 6:58 ` Stefan Roese
2010-09-24 18:52 ` Tirumala Marri
2010-09-24 18:52 ` Tirumala Marri
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