Re: RAID-6: help wanted

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > It'll be about 40 minutes until it's uploaded, because of the 80 MB 
> > data file.
> >
> > This will create a RAID-6 volume on a loopback device, fail a unit, 
> > and then write a bunch of stuff, which will corrupt the filesystem.  
> > The corruption only happens when writing to a volume that is running 
> > in degraded mode; it seems to happen both with 1 and 2 disks missing.

For all I know, too, the data file can be any large collection of 
small-to-medium size files (I think it currently contains a Linux kernel 
build tree), so downloading it all might not be necessary.

        -hpa
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