Posted Jun 19, 2012 11:27 UTC (Tue) by spender (subscriber, #23067)
Parent article: Brown: A Nasty md/raid bug
In fact, all the boring normal bugs are _way_ more important, just because
there's a lot more of them. I don't think some spectacular RAID bug
should be glorified or cared about as being any more "special" than a
random spectacular crash due to bad locking.
Posted Jun 19, 2012 14:26 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
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This bug can render all your data instantly inaccessible at once, and it does it at powerdown so there's no way to recover before you restart, *and* you were using RAID so you thought you were safer.
Much more than most bugs, this one seems likely to give someone a horrible shock in the morning. Most crash bugs don't do that: you restart and you're OK.
Brown: A Nasty md/raid bug
Posted Jun 19, 2012 14:32 UTC (Tue) by spender (subscriber, #23067)
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