linux-ext4 - Re: [patch] ext2/3: document conditions when reliable operation is possible

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Message-ID: <4A95FDB4.3050904@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:29:56 -0400
From:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
CC:	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>, Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@...hat.com>,
	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, Florian Weimer <fweimer@....de>,
	Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@....de>,
	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, mtk.manpages@...il.com,
	rdunlap@...otime.net, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, corbet@....net
Subject: Re: [patch] ext2/3: document conditions when reliable operation is
 possible

Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
>>> Ok, can you help? Having a piece of MD documentation explaining the
>>> "powerfail nukes entire stripe" and how current filesystems do not
>>> deal with that would be nice, along with description when exactly that
>>> happens.
>> Except of course for the inconvenient detail that a power
>> failure on a degraded RAID 5 array does *NOT* nuke the
>> entire stripe.
> 
> Ok, you are right. It will nuke unrelated sector somewhere on the
> stripe (one that is "old" and was not recently written) -- which is
> still something ext3 can not reliably handle.

Not quite unrelated.  The "nuked" sector will be the one
that used to live on the disk that is broken and no longer
a part of the RAID 5 array.

I wouldn't qualify a missing hard disk as a software issue...

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