Followup to: <20040801180536.GA3897@xxxxxx> By author: Jim Paris <jim@xxxxxxxx> In newsgroup: linux.dev.raid > > > I eventually got a kernel panic when copying large amounts of data to a > > [degraded] raid6 array, which this time was the full 600 GB size. > > Don't know if it is helpful to anyone but info below: > > The panic is from reiserfs, and it's occuring because the FS is > getting corrupted due to the raid6 problems. > It's still very odd to me that so far the only thing that triggers this kind of problems is reiserfs. Either reiserfs just has a really odd series of access patterns, or it is relying on behaviour which isn't actually guaranteed. I suspect the former, but it's still odd. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html