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Ext3 and RAID: silent data killers?

Ext3 and RAID: silent data killers?

Posted Sep 1, 2009 3:22 UTC (Tue) by zlynx (subscriber, #2285)
In reply to: Ext3 and RAID: silent data killers? by flewellyn
Parent article: Ext3 and RAID: silent data killers?

I think it's noteworthy.

Most people, myself included, expect a degraded RAID array to fail **only if another drive fails**. I do NOT expect losing 256KB of data because a single 4KB write failed.

And in fact, the array didn't lose it. It just can't tell which 4KB went bad, which it could if MD did good write-intent logging.


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