BUG: possible array corruption when adding a component to a degraded raid5 (possibly other levels too)

Hello, It seems that mdadm/md do not perform proper sanity checks before adding a component to a degraded array. If the size of the new component is just right, the superblock information will overlap with the data area. This will happen without any error indications in the syslog or

Re: BUG: possible array corruption when adding a component to a degraded raid5 (possibly other levels too)

Neil Brown wrote: On Monday January 28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, It seems that mdadm/md do not perform proper sanity checks before adding a component to a degraded array. If the size of the new component is just right, the superblock information will overlap with the data area. This

Re: BUG: possible array corruption when adding a component to a degraded raid5 (possibly other levels too)

On Monday January 28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, It seems that mdadm/md do not perform proper sanity checks before adding a component to a degraded array. If the size of the new component is just right, the superblock information will overlap with the data area. This will happen

Re: BUG: possible array corruption when adding a component to a degraded raid5 (possibly other levels too)

On Monday January 28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, It seems that mdadm/md do not perform proper sanity checks before adding a component to a degraded array. If the size of the new component is just right, the superblock information will overlap with the data area. This will happen