On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 09:30:51AM +1100, Neil Brown wrote:
> 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.
I have a 2.4.17 on the machine now, pending reboot (tomorrow - the
box is 20 minutes on foot thru a blizzard away now)...
Thanks for the info,
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