On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 01:17:31PM +0200, Pallai Roland wrote: > On Monday 28 May 2007 04:17:18 David Chinner wrote: > > Hmmmm. A quick look at the linux code makes me thikn that background > > writeback on linux has never been able to cause a shutdown in this case. > > However, the same error on Irix will definitely cause a shutdown, > > though.... > I hope Linux will follow Irix, that's a consistent standpoint. I raised a bug for this yesterday when writing that reply. It won't get forgotten now.... > David, have you a plan to implement your "reporting raid5 block layer" > idea? No one else has caring about this silent data loss on temporary > (cable, power) failed raid5 arrays as I see, I really hope you do at least! Yeah, I'd love to get something like this happening, but given it's about half way down my list of "stuff to do when I have some spare time" I'd say it will be about 2015 before I get to it..... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner Principal Engineer SGI Australian Software Group - 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
