Re: [FAQ-answer] Re: soft RAID5 + journalled FS + power fai

2000-01-13 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Wed, 12 Jan 2000 11:28:28 MET-1, "Petr Vandrovec" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I did not follow this thread (on -fsdevel) too close (and I never looked into RAID code, so I should shut up), but... can you confirm that after buffer with data is finally marked dirty, parity is recomputed

Re: [FAQ-answer] Re: soft RAID5 + journalled FS + power fai

2000-01-12 Thread Petr Vandrovec
On 11 Jan 00 at 22:24, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: The race I'm concerned about could occur when the raid driver wants to compute parity for a stripe and finds some of the blocks are present, and clean, in the buffer cache. Raid assumes that those buffers represent what is on disk, naturally