On Tuesday May 23, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk wrote:
> > 2) currently software raid can't be combined with the journaling ext3 or
> > reiserfs filesystems - which is a real pity. Raid 1/5 and a journaling
> > filesystem are such an obviously perfect match.
>
> Fixed for 2.3.x
>
> > to crash/power off the system at a moment when just one disk an updated raid
> > event counter, nest bootup will decide that this one disk is right and all
> > the others are wrong and will refuse to start up your raid array.
>
This is also fixed for 2.3.99pre8+.
The event counter is incremented at raidstart and at raidstop, and a
difference of 1 does not cause a disc to appear old, you need a
difference of 2.
NeilBrown
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