On 08/08/2011 10:55 PM, NeilBrown wrote: > On Mon, 8 Aug 2011 22:29:10 -0400 Stephen Muskiewicz <stephen_muskiewicz@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> This does lead to a question: Do you recommend (and is it safe on CentOS >> 5.5?) for me to use the updated (3.2.2 with your patch) version of mdadm >> going forward in place of the CentOS version (2.6.9)? > > I wouldn't kept that patch. It was a little hack to get your array working > again. I wouldn't recommend using it without expert advice... > > Other than that ... 3.2.2 certainly fixes bug and adds features over 2.6.9, > but maybe it adds some bugs too... I would say that it is safe, but probably > not really necessary. > i.e. up to you :-) Let me add a reason to stick with 2.6.9: it has different defaults for metadata reserved space. If all hell breaks loose, and you find you need to do "mdadm --create --assume-clean" or some variant as part of your recovery efforts, you'll need the older version to get an identical layout. Phil -- 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
