Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

From: David Greaves
Date: Fri Sep 23 2005 - 01:21:45 EST


Gregory Maxwell wrote:

>Very interesting indeed, although it almost seems silly to tackle the
>difficult problem of making filesystems highly robust against oddball
>failure modes while our RAID subsystem falls horribly on it's face in
>the fairly common (and conceptually easy to handle) failure mode of a
>raid-5 where two disks have single unreadable blocks on differing
>parts of the disk. (the current raid system hits one bad block, fails
>the whole disk, then you attempt a rebuild and while reading hits the
>other bad block and downs the array).
>
>
who's not keeping up with the linux-raid list then ;)

David
PS I'm sure assistance would be appreciated in testing and reviewing
this few day old feature - or indeed the newer 'add a new disk to the
array' feature.

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