linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.19-mm1 (md/raid1 randomly drops partitions)

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Date:	Tue, 12 Dec 2006 09:52:54 +1100
From:	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.19-mm1 (md/raid1 randomly drops partitions)

On Monday December 11, rjw@...k.pl wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Monday, 11 December 2006 09:58, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 
> > Temporarily at
> > 
> > 	http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.19-mm1/
> > 
> > Will appear later at
> > 
> > 	ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.19/2.6.19-mm1/
> 
> It caused all of the md RAID1s on my test box to drop one of their partitions,
> apparently at random.

That's clever....

Do you have any kernel logs of this happening?  My guess would be the
underlying device driver is returned more errors than before, but we
need the logs to be sure.

Thanks,
NeilBrown
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