Re: Pre 2.4 heads up ;)

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On Wednesday February 20, jakob@unthought.net wrote:
> 
> I'm taking this machine down for a disk replacement (Software RAID-5):
> 
> uptime:
>  12:31pm  up 215 days, 16:33,  2 users,  load average: 2.00, 2.00, 2.00
> 
> uname -a:
> Linux unthought.net 2.4.0-test4 #1 SMP Fri Jul 14 01:56:30 CEST 2000
> i686 unknown

Ouch!  There was a bug in the raid5 code prior to about 2.4.2 which
could corrupt data (It did something wrong in the parity calculation).
Maybe you just got lucky, but I strongly recommend an upgrade.

NeilBrown
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