Re: [PATCH] - filesystem corruption on soft RAID5 in 2.4.0+

[Neil Brown]

On Monday January 22, [e-mail] wrote:
> In article <[e-mail]> you wrote:
> > There have been assorted reports of filesystem corruption on raid5 in
> > 2.4.0, and I have finally got a patch - see below.
> > I don't know if it addresses everybody's problems, but it fixed a very
> > really problem that is very reproducable.
> 
> Do you know if it is safe with 2.4.0 kernels to swap on degraded soft raids?
> On the debian-devel list there is a discussion. Currently Debisn Systems to
> not do swap-on on boot if a raid partition is resyncing.

In 2.2 it was not safe to swap to a RAID array that we being resyched
or was having a spare reconstructed, but in 2.4 it is perfectly safe.

It would be entirely appropriate for the init.d script to check for
version >= 2.3.9pre8 (I think that is when the new resync code went
it) - or probably just >= 2.4.0, and bypass any fancy checks if that
is the case.

NeilBrown

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> Bernd
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