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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html