From: Daniel Reurich <daniel@centurion.net.nz>
To: linux-raid <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: a general question re. linux-raid stability
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:19:55 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1285035595.5101.176.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C97DFB4.1010705@meetinghouse.net>
On Mon, 2010-09-20 at 18:27 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> Folks,
>
> 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)? I
> can't recall seeing either md or mdadm updates propagate through the
> packaging system. Should I be worried about my production machines?
>
I've been running stock Lenny with Raid1 and Raid5 on a number of
servers using the stock Lenny tools with no problems. I think it's safe
that unless you reshape (add disks or change levels ie; raid5 to raid6
etc. If you do this you really then should get the latest and greatest
kernels and mdadm package and make sure you have a good backup and are
not relying on your server before doing anything). The biggest issue is
actually booting working properly as grub2's raid support is a bit
broken for some scenarios.
Regards,
--
Daniel Reurich.
Centurion Computer Technology (2005) Ltd
Mobile 021 797 722
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-21 2:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ 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
2010-09-20 18:00 ` Tirumala Marri
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 [this message]
2010-09-21 9:27 ` Tim Small
2010-09-21 15:35 ` Miles Fidelman
2010-09-21 17:00 ` Andre Tomt
2010-09-23 20:22 ` [PATCH 1/2] PPC4xx: Generelizing drivers/dma/ppc4xx/adma.c Dan Williams
2010-09-23 22:39 ` Tirumala Marri
2010-09-24 6:58 ` Stefan Roese
2010-09-24 18:52 ` Tirumala Marri
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