On Mon, 2010-09-20 at 18:27 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Folks, > > I've been watching patch after patch go by on this list, which leads me > to wonder - how stable are the basic raid kernel modules, and mdadm, as > included in major linux distributions (in my case, Debian Lenny)? I > can't recall seeing either md or mdadm updates propagate through the > packaging system. Should I be worried about my production machines? > I've been running stock Lenny with Raid1 and Raid5 on a number of servers using the stock Lenny tools with no problems. I think it's safe that unless you reshape (add disks or change levels ie; raid5 to raid6 etc. If you do this you really then should get the latest and greatest kernels and mdadm package and make sure you have a good backup and are not relying on your server before doing anything). The biggest issue is actually booting working properly as grub2's raid support is a bit broken for some scenarios. Regards, -- Daniel Reurich. Centurion Computer Technology (2005) Ltd Mobile 021 797 722 -- 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
