From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263060AbTLEEcC (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2003 23:32:02 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263166AbTLEEcC (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2003 23:32:02 -0500 Received: from wsip-68-14-236-254.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.14.236.254]:10979 "EHLO office.labsysgrp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263060AbTLEEcA (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2003 23:32:00 -0500 Message-ID: <3FD00A3B.2030403@backtobasicsmgmt.com> Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 21:31:55 -0700 From: "Kevin P. Fleming" Organization: Back to Basics Network Management User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030925 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Neil Brown CC: Jens Axboe , Linus Torvalds , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?David_Mart=EDnez_Moreno?= , Kernel Mailing List , clubinfo.servers@adi.uam.es, Ingo Molnar , Nathan Scott , Mihai RUSU Subject: Re: Errors and later panics in 2.6.0-test11. References: <200312031417.18462.ender@debian.org> <200312031747.16927.ender@debian.org> <20031204124342.GD1086@suse.de> <20031204140738.GE1086@suse.de> <16335.63095.266710.554162@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <16335.63095.266710.554162@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Neil Brown wrote: > After staring at the code over and ove again, I finally saw the > assumption that I was making that was invalid. I also found a > possible data-corruption bug in the process. > > If you have been having problems with raid5, please try this patch and > see if it helps. Initial indications are good here, my system (using XFS on linear DM over a 6-disk RAID-5) just passed a bonnie++ run while the array was resyncing, which it has not done without oopsing before.