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From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
To: bobzer <bobzer@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: raid 5 and bad block feature
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 07:12:17 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120215071217.32963463@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADzS=aoMH5jL_6opVRAMY=+-N+3JE9kt-BNY4rC6aon4jyfPVQ@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:18:28 -0500 bobzer <bobzer@gmail.com> wrote:

> hi
> 
> I wanna setup a debian server with raid 5 and so I would know some news
> about
> the new version of mdadm (devel-3.3) to use the bad block feature :-).
> there is a release planned ?

No.  I don't plan releases until about a week before they happen.
Unfortunately I haven't had much time to work on mdadm lately.  Maybe next
month.

> if i start to use it now, could I upgrade it when the release will arrive ?

Yes, definitely.

> Is it enough safe to use it ?

Hard to say.  I have done some testing so I believe it basically works, but
there are almost certainly some bugs still in there.  Until it gets widely
used it will be hard to know for sure.
I think it quite unlikely that the bugs would result in loss of data, though
they may result in a hang or a crash or something like that

I can only suggest you try it and see - but have backups of important data.
If you run into any problem I will certainly do whatever I can to sort them
out.

NeilBrown


> 
> thank you for your time
> 
> Mathieu


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2012-02-14 19:20 ` raid 5 and bad block feature bobzer
2012-02-14 20:12 ` NeilBrown [this message]

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