Re: Software RAID5 with 2.6.0-test

Torrey Hoffman
2003-10-08T23:24:18Z

My experience:

I'm running 2.6.0-test6 on a dual pentium 3 with software raid-5 across
5 disks on two different IDE hardware controllers (VIA and Promise).
I've got a 224 GB reiserfs partition on that.

After 8 days uptime, it doesn't seem to have blown up yet. However I
don't stress it heavily - just a nightly rsync or two which does a lot
of reading and writing, and I export my music collection on it via NFS,
which is a low level of read activity.

I mirror the RAID to an external firewire drive nightly for backup,
since I don't trust it 100% either, yet.

I'd also be interested to know if there are known problems with software
RAID5 in 2.6.

Hope that helps,

Torrey Hoffman
thoffman@arnor.net

On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 15:43, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> Is software RAID5 stable in Linux 2.6.0-test7? A while back I tried
> running a software RAID5 with a 2.6.0-test kernel, and had to spend
> the evening running fsck. The corruption could have been caused by
> something other than the RAID layer. So, is it considered safe to use
> RAID5 in 2.6.0 kernels? I sort of dislike the try and see approach
> with matters like this.
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Torrey Hoffman <thoffman@arnor.net>