On Thu, Sep 09, 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 11:40:49AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Paul Jimenez wrote:
> >
> > > This patch is based on the md.c that shipped with the 2.2.11 kernel; it
> > > calls md_stop() on all RAID partitions still around at shutdown/reboot
> > > time, which allows one to have a small (non-RAID) /boot partition with
> > > a kernel on it and a larger (RAID1) partition that's /.
> >
> > auto-stop has been in the newest driver for a long time. The RAID1 code in
> > stock 2.2.11 is considered old and buggy (eg. in the case of disk failure)
> > - it's recommended to upgrade to the newest RAID driver and do an mkraid
> > --upgrade.
>
> Ingo, could you elaborate on this ?
>
> Are all versions of the RAID driver except for the newest one considered
> buggy, in case of disk failure ?
>
> What's the problem ? Are all known problems fixed now ?
>
> I'm sort of wondering, because I've had a lot of luck with older versions,
> and would hate to upgrade all the boxes if it's not necessary :)
>
I agree with you. I posted a similar patch few month ago to this list
(ftp://ftp.ddb.de/pub/linux/root_raid1_support/). This patch is installed on
two production servers running without any problems (kernel 2.2.9, old mdtools
0.42, ...). The only thing I (not really) miss is an automatic reconstruction
running in background in case of a disk failure.
Thomas
