Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 19 Oct 2001 09:37:23 -0700 (PDT) | From | "Jeffrey W. Baker" <> | Subject | Re: RAID and 2.4.12 ? |
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On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Mario Mikocevic wrote:
> Hi, > > are there any known problems with software raid and kernel 2.4.12 ? > > I have several production servers (Dell poweredge 1550) with active > kernels from range of 2.4.8/2.4.9/2.4.12. All of them are quite loaded > with web/ftp/game/realmedia servers. > > Only combination of RAID and 2.4.12 gives me trouble, complete hang, > no output, no ping. Unfortunately I can't reproduce it by will, sometimes > it hangs just after few mins of uptime, sometimes after few hours. > > I _do_ have few servers running 2.4.12 quite realiably (not a single reboot yet) > but without RAID on them (heavily loaded list server and very heavily loaded > realmedia server). > > Combination of 2.4.9 and RAID works without any problem so far.
I only have anecdotal evidence, but 2.4.12 worked fine for my on a single SCSI disk but as soon as I mounted my root device on RAID 0, the kernel would oops (after ~30 seconds up uptime) and all processes which write to the disk would be unkillable.
I switched to 2.4.12-ac3 with no problems (yet).
-jwb
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