Re: File corruption on LVM2 on top of software RAID1

2005-08-05 Thread Andrew Morton
"Simon Matter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > While looking at some data corruption vulnerability reports on > Securityfocus I wonder why this issue does not get any attention from > distributors. I have an open bugzilla report with RedHat, have an open > customer service request with RedHat, ha

Re: File corruption on LVM2 on top of software RAID1

2005-08-05 Thread Simon Matter
> "Simon Matter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Please CC me as I'm not subscribed to the kernel list. >> >> I had a hard time identifying a serious problem in the 2.6 linux kernel. > > Yes, it is a serious problem. > >> It all started while evaluating RHEL4 for new servers. My data int

Re: File corruption on LVM2 on top of software RAID1

2005-08-04 Thread Andrew Morton
Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There's one fix against 2.6.12.3 which is needed, but 2.6.9 didn't have the > bug which this fix addresses. aargh, I see that it did fix it. Don't blame me. Blame people who screw up list threading by reading a mail->news gateway and hitting "reply".

Re: File corruption on LVM2 on top of software RAID1

2005-08-04 Thread Andrew Morton
"Simon Matter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Please CC me as I'm not subscribed to the kernel list. > > I had a hard time identifying a serious problem in the 2.6 linux kernel. Yes, it is a serious problem. > It all started while evaluating RHEL4 for new servers. My data integrity > te

Re: File corruption on LVM2 on top of software RAID1

2005-08-04 Thread Simon Matter
> Once upon a time, "Simon Matter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >>In my tests I get corrupt files on LVM2 which is on top of software >> raid1. >>(This is a common setup even mentioned in the software RAID HOWTO and has >>worked for me on RedHat 9 / kernel 2.4 for a long time now and it's my >>favouri

Re: File corruption on LVM2 on top of software RAID1

2005-08-03 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, "Simon Matter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >In my tests I get corrupt files on LVM2 which is on top of software raid1. >(This is a common setup even mentioned in the software RAID HOWTO and has >worked for me on RedHat 9 / kernel 2.4 for a long time now and it's my >favourite config

File corruption on LVM2 on top of software RAID1

2005-08-03 Thread Simon Matter
Hi, Please CC me as I'm not subscribed to the kernel list. I had a hard time identifying a serious problem in the 2.6 linux kernel. It all started while evaluating RHEL4 for new servers. My data integrity tests gave me bad results - which I couldn't believe - and my first idea was - of course - b