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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Guy <bugzilla@watkins-home.com>
Cc: 'Ruth Ivimey-Cook' <Ruth.Ivimey-Cook@ivimey.org>,
	linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH md 2 of 4] Fix raid6 problem
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 10:07:28 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42026860.1000409@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200502031743.j13Hha910546@www.watkins-home.com>

Guy wrote:
> Would you say that the 2.6 Kernel is suitable for storing mission-critical
> data, then?

Sure.  I'd trust 2.6 over 2.4 at this point.

> I ask because I have read about a lot of problems with data corruption and
> oops on this list and the SCSI list.  But in most or all cases the 2.4
> Kernel does not have the same problem.

I haven't seen any problems like that, including on kernel.org, which is 
definitely a high demand site.

> Who out there has a RAID6 array that they believe is stable and safe?
> And please give some details about the array.  Number of disks, sizes, LVM,
> FS, SCSI, ATA and anything else you can think of?  Also, details about any
> disk failures and how well recovery went?

The one I have is a 6-disk ATA array (6x250 GB), ext3.  Had one disk 
failure which hasn't been replaced yet; it's successfully running in 
1-disk degraded mode.

I'll let other people speak for themselves.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2005-02-03 18:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200502031145.j13Bj1fl016074@terminus.zytor.com>
2005-02-03 16:39 ` [PATCH md 2 of 4] Fix raid6 problem H. Peter Anvin
2005-02-03 16:59   ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2005-02-03 17:06     ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-02-03 17:43   ` Guy
2005-02-03 18:07     ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2005-02-03 19:36       ` Gordon Henderson
2005-02-04  9:04         ` Andrew Walrond
2005-02-04 11:19           ` Gordon Henderson
2005-02-04 18:31             ` Mike Hardy
2005-02-13 21:05               ` Mark Hahn
2005-02-13 21:19                 ` Gordon Henderson
2005-02-14  4:56                   ` Tim Moore
2005-02-14  9:42                     ` Andrew Walrond
2005-02-13 22:58                 ` Mike Hardy
2005-02-13 23:14                   ` Richard Scobie
2005-02-06  3:38             ` Tim Moore
2005-02-14  4:49             ` Tim Moore
2005-02-14  8:09               ` Gordon Henderson
2005-02-14  4:27         ` Tim Moore
2005-02-14  8:05           ` Gordon Henderson
2004-11-03 23:56 A. James Lewis
2004-12-09  0:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-12-09  0:35   ` Jim Paris
     [not found] ` <200412090021.iB90L4MK014200@terminus.zytor.com>
2005-01-23 14:02   ` A. James Lewis
2005-01-23 14:42     ` Kevin P. Fleming
2005-02-03  2:12     ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-02-03 17:13       ` Andy Smith
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-11-02  3:37 [PATCH md 0 of 4] Introduction NeilBrown
2004-11-02  3:37 ` [PATCH md 2 of 4] Fix raid6 problem NeilBrown

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