Followup to: <33023.212.158.231.74.1106488921.squirrel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> By author: "A. James Lewis" <james@xxxxxxxxxx> In newsgroup: linux.dev.raid > > > Sorry for the delay in replying, I've been using RAID6 in a real life > situation with 2.6.9 + patch, for 2 months now, with 1.15Tb of storage, > and I have had more than 1 drive failure... as well as some rather > embarasing hardware corruption which I traced to a faulty IDE controller. > > Dispite some random DMA corrupion, and loosing a total of 3 disks, I have > not had any problems with it RAID6 itself, and really it has litereally > saved my data from being lost. > > I ran a diff against the 2.6.9 patch and what is in 2.6.10... and they are > not the same, presumably a more elegant fix has been implimented for the > production kernel?? > I think there are some other (generic) fixes in there too. Anyway... I'm thinking of sending in a patch to take out the "experimental" status of RAID-6. I have been running a 1 TB production server in 1-disk degraded mode for about a month now without incident. -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
