On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 10:41:02PM +1100, Neil Brown wrote:
> 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.
Was that in 2.4.0-test4 as well ?
The system is up and running again, and I have the failed disk sitting here on
my table.
Due to long uptimes (it had 178 days before the last power-failure), all
filesystems (including the one on RAID-5) were checked on boot, no problems...
Things *seem* to be running smoothly so far...
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