On Sunday December 28, daniel.com@wtnord.net wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Raid5 system of four 160GB SATA disks. The drives > themselves work fine, but when large files (a few hundred > megs) are written to the raid disks they get corrupted after > a random amount of data. The kernel is Linus 2.6.0. > > Any hints you can give me to get this working is highly > appreciated. What file system? Are you using DeviceMapper over the raid5? If you are using DeviceMapper, can you try without it? (I don't think there is a proble with DeviceMapper, but it drives raid5 slightly differently to e.g. direct ext3 and could trigger a bug in raid5.) 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