On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 05:48:25AM +0100, Matt wrote: > Jonathan Gray schreef: >> grange@ the author of the driver says there is still a data corruption >> bug in ips, so rather than enabling it on ramdisks I'll disable >> it in GENERIC tonight. >> > > Am I understanding correctly grange's info made you decide the ips driver > should not be used _at all_ ?
Well a storage driver known to cause data corruption is a disturbing thing. > I was planning to put this box in production today but the 'data > corruption' part got me worried. > > Is there more info available on what the author said? > And is there anything we can / should do to accomodate a fix? "unfixed data corruption bug" is the extent of my knowledge, I don't think grange currently has the time to work on this further right now.