On Wednesday February 20, jakob@unthought.net wrote: > On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 10:41:02PM +1100, Neil Brown wrote: > > > > 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 ? > I thought it was, but looking through my patch archives, it still hadn't gone in by test13-pre3, but it must have gone in shortly after that. So you are safe. But you can expect substantial throughput improvements if you do upgrade: the patch that introduced the bug also make raid5 much faster. 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
