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From: malahal@us.ibm.com
To: dm-devel@redhat.com
Cc: agk@redhat.com
Subject: Re: DM-RAID1 data corruption
Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 18:33:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090527013328.GA18627@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0904200552590.27291@hs20-bc2-1.build.redhat.com>

Mikulas, does RedHat have a bugzilla bug opened for this problem?

Mikulas Patocka [mpatocka@redhat.com] wrote:
> MD-RAID1 solves this problem by having counters in superblocks on both 
> legs. If some leg dies, the counter on the other devices is increased. If 
> the dead disk comes online again, it is found that it has old counter and 
> cannot be trusted.
> 
> Would it be possible to extend a logical volume when converting it to a 
> raid1 and use the last area of the volume as a superblock?

Interesting idea. Any more thoughts on this front?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-05-27  1:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-14 20:46 DM-RAID1 data corruption Mikulas Patocka
2009-04-14 21:07 ` Takahiro Yasui
2009-04-15  3:12 ` malahal
2009-04-15 20:38   ` Takahiro Yasui
2009-04-16  2:49     ` malahal
2009-04-16 22:24       ` Takahiro Yasui
2009-04-20  9:56         ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-04-20 17:08           ` Takahiro Yasui
2009-05-27  1:33           ` malahal [this message]
2009-06-23  1:09           ` malahal
2009-06-23 16:44             ` Takahiro Yasui
2009-06-23 18:22               ` malahal
2009-06-24  3:03               ` Neil Brown
2009-06-24 16:09                 ` Takahiro Yasui
2009-06-25 14:47                   ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-06-25 16:16                     ` Takahiro Yasui

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