Re: 2.6.16/MD/DM-crypt/fs corruption

From: Andrea Gelmini
Date: Wed May 03 2006 - 11:50:31 EST


On mer, mag 03, 2006 at 11:16:53 +0200, Andrea Gelmini wrote:
> Hi all,
> to make short a long story:
> a) five pata disks Maxtor 500GB each one;
> b) one big software raid 5 (/dev/md1);[1]
> c) dmcrypt-ing /dev/md1;[2]
> d) after 500GB copied I've got fs corruption;[3]

it seems it's not only my problem.[1]
it would be good to put an advisory about it in menuconfig. I had spent an
incredible amount of hours trying to find hardware failure, and weeks to
re-test/reproduce the problem every time.
here[2] you can find a much more details.

thanks a lot for your time,
gelma

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[1] http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/96509133/m/282007248731
[2] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-raid&m=114579714925936&w=2
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