From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Miles Fidelman Subject: Re: a general question re. linux-raid stability Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 11:35:35 -0400 Message-ID: <4C98D0C7.2000607@meetinghouse.net> References: <1284774145-14543-1-git-send-email-tmarri@apm.com> <20100918210920.E05AE157D71@gemini.denx.de> <7707889dee57e97ad50b4ce5c7697466@mail.gmail.com> <4C97DFB4.1010705@meetinghouse.net> <4C987A77.7050903@seoss.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4C987A77.7050903@seoss.co.uk> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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 practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra