linux-ext4 - Re: Massive corruption on RAID0

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Date:	Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:33:57 -0500
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To:	Krzysztof Kosiński <tweenk.pl@...il.com>
CC:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Massive corruption on RAID0

Krzysztof Kosiński wrote:
> W dniu 29 czerwca 2009 05:30 użytkownik Eric Sandeen
> <sandeen@...hat.com> napisał:
>> Is the super.bin above from before the fiddling you did (i.e. right
>> after the power loss?)
> Yes, it's before I started my recovery attempts, though mount and
> e2fsck -p were run on it during the boot process before I removed it
> from fstab.
> 
>> The superblock is marked with errors, I wonder
>> if there were other errors reported on the filesystem prior to the power
>> loss; you might check your logs ...
> I checked and it seems there were no errors until the power failure.
> By the way, is there some way to have RAID0-like functionality with
> write barriers?

Mirrors can pass barriers, IIRC, but not stripes (IIRC...) - I don't
know if any work is being done to address this.

I wonder if there's any chance that your raid was reassembled
incorrectly....

-Eric
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