Re: Errors and later panics in 2.6.0-test11.

From: Nathan Scott
Date: Thu Dec 04 2003 - 23:35:07 EST


On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 02:07:35PM +1100, Neil Brown wrote:
> On Thursday December 4, axboe@xxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > I can just as easily reproduce with ext2, so I don't think XFS has
> > anything to do with it. This is still raid5 with dm linear on top.
> >
>
> Thanks. The more evidence the better....
>
> After staring at the code over and ove again, I finally saw the
> assumption that I was making that was invalid. I also found a
> possible data-corruption bug in the process.
>
> If you have been having problems with raid5, please try this patch and
> see if it helps.

Yes, thats fixed it. That reproducible test case I had no longer
shows any problems.

cheers.

--
Nathan
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