On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 09:47:57AM -0500, AndyLiebman@aol.com wrote: > Is there any "definitive word" about whether it's safe to use software RAID-5 > under the released version of the 2.6 kernel? I have heard about various > problems on this list. Are they now resolved? Are there specific configurations to > watch out for? If anybody has this information, it might be nice to post it. A definite word for the 2.4 kernel, especially when using SATA, would also be welcome. >From my own experiences, the SATA chipsets from Silicon Image and VIA has problems with both RAID1 and RAID5, even though normal file systems work fine. /Basic - 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