From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: RAID-6: help wanted Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 00:09:29 -0700 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <417B5529.2070709@zytor.com> References: <417B3CF9.7090107@wasp.net.au> <417B546C.3050706@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <417B546C.3050706@zytor.com> To: Brad Campbell Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Brad Campbell wrote: >> >> Great, can we get a copy of the scripts to try and assist? >> >> Brad > > In the process of being uploaded to: > > http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/raid6-bug/ > > It'll be about 40 minutes until it's uploaded, because of the 80 MB data > file. > > This will create a RAID-6 volume on a loopback device, fail a unit, and > then write a bunch of stuff, which will corrupt the filesystem. The > corruption only happens when writing to a volume that is running in > degraded mode; it seems to happen both with 1 and 2 disks missing. > Changed to: http://userweb.kernel.org/~hpa/raid6-bug/ (It's a faster server, but it'll still take about 40 minutes from now until it's uploaded, but then it can at least be a quicker download.) -hpa