Andrew Klaassen schrieb:
>
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 07:45:16PM -0400,
> Bryan J. Smith wrote:
>
> > I thought the whole 2.4 kernel and software RAID-5 was not
> > recommended, no matter what fs you use?
>
> Hmm. I hope not - we've just deployed 300G of IDE drive (using
> an onboard controller, no less) on a box running
> 2.4.2-SGI_XFS_1.0.1_PR1 over software RAID 5, and plan to deploy
> 300G more once we've had a chance to tweak and tune and further
> stress test the second box. Other than the highmem bug - which
> showed up in testing on the second box, and hasn't yet affected
> the first - we haven't experienced any difficulties.
>
> Should we expect some?
Okay, I'm using SoftRAID5 on Linux for years now on servers with many
hundred days of uptime and I have not seen any problem, until now.
And, it's not XFS related, it happens with ext2 as well. I'm still
trying to find out what's goning wrong here.
Simon
>
> Are there some kernel mailing list threads I might want to take
> a look at before I dig myself in too deep?
>
> Andrew Klaassen
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