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From: Asdo <asdo@shiftmail.org>
To: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Alexander Lyakas <alex.bolshoy@gmail.com>,
	linux-raid <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: On mdadm 3.2 and bad-block-log
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 10:21:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50052099.4000401@shiftmail.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120717114916.46263d92@notabene.brown>

On 07/17/12 03:49, NeilBrown wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 10:56:27 +0200 Asdo<asdo@shiftmail.org>  wrote:
>
> Yes, there is a degree to which your data is at risk. This is always 
> the case with new code. If you upgrade to new -stable kernels as they 
> become available, that should minimise your risk as any fix that could 
> risk data or stability is backported to these -stable kernels.

I am on kernel 3.4, that's "stable", right?

> I don't know of any particularly serious bugs that have been found - they
> mostly are triggered by unusual conditions.  However unusual conditions do
> happen.
>
> Thank you for using and testing the code.  Has md found and recorded any bad
> blocks for you, or are your bad-block logs still empty?

Still empty for now
They are filled only on read error + failed block rewrite, right? That 
will take a long time to happen...

Thanks for your work


  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-17  8:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-12 16:51 On mdadm 3.2 and bad-block-log Asdo
2012-07-11  9:40 ` Alexander Lyakas
2012-07-16  3:41   ` NeilBrown
2012-07-16  7:41     ` Asdo
2012-07-16  7:55       ` Alexander Lyakas
2012-07-16  8:56         ` Asdo
2012-07-16  9:08           ` Alexander Lyakas
2012-07-17  1:49           ` NeilBrown
2012-07-17  8:21             ` Asdo [this message]
2012-07-17 23:34               ` NeilBrown

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