Re: Linux 2.6.10 / RAID1 problem

On Wednesday January 5, bernd@rhm.de wrote:

Hi Sven,

we used RAID1 under Kernel 2.4.x without any problems (except the counters
for activ- and spare disks became wrong). With kernel 2.6.x RAID1 is a 
desaster. This problem was dicussed in this newsgroup in the second half
of last year. The kernel dies if a disk fails

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This was true in 2.6.9 and earlier.  It is fixed in 2.6.10.

                                              or if the system is heavy 

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loaded (the latter one we can't reproduce but it happens, may be there

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will be some other issues on the SCSI bus for other reasons leading to
the same result). 

This one I am not aware of.  More details would be most helpful.

NeilBrown