From: Andre Tomt <andre@tomt.net>
To: 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 19:00:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C98E4B9.60708@tomt.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C98D0C7.2000607@meetinghouse.net>
On 09/21/2010 05:35 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> Tim Small wrote:
>> 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...
I wouln't worry about it, this is mostly churn, they add some, break
some, fix some. The kernel that distributions release have been
stabilized and 'frozen' for a good while meaning they are usually pretty
safe, even if they can seem quite old. I'm also willing to bet that
those fixes are mostly for corner cases rarely seen in the wild.
If you had been watching the linux-kernel list you'd be surprised your
machines boot at all. ;)
Don't worry, be happy (until it blows up.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-21 17:00 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
2010-09-21 17:00 ` Andre Tomt [this message]
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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