On Sat, 22 Mar 2008, Stef Walter wrote: > Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > I have seen this bug in other ATA RAID implementations (VIA & > > Promise) too. From what I can tell this part of your patch is > > general to all ATA RAID arrays, right? > > Yes, a small part. The part that will write out the RAID information > (thus updating the generation) whenever the status changes, > regardless of whether that change takes place when the machine is off > or not.
I am fairly astonished that the ataraid code didn't do that already :( > Without testing, I can't be sure whether this solves the problem on > other ataraid devices. I don't have ready access to such systems anymore, we switched to 3ware controllers after seeing problems with broken arrays. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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