Hi! >> Ok, can you help? Having a piece of MD documentation explaining the >> "powerfail nukes entire stripe" and how current filesystems do not >> deal with that would be nice, along with description when exactly that >> happens. > > Except of course for the inconvenient detail that a power > failure on a degraded RAID 5 array does *NOT* nuke the > entire stripe. Ok, you are right. It will nuke unrelated sector somewhere on the stripe (one that is "old" and was not recently written) -- which is still something ext3 can not reliably handle. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
