On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, John Finlay wrote:
> Encouraged by this result, I foolishly went ahead and remade a linear
Not blatantly foolish at all - fs corruption has been a tricky problem
with 2.2.
> /dev/md1 using the two 36GB drives (except for 2GB in /dev/hda1 for /) -
> 32GB in /dev/hda4 and 34GB in /dev/hdb1. I then did a mkraid and made an
> ext2 filesystem on it. But when I went to mount the filesystem, I got a
> ton of errors about incorrect inode counts. After shutting the system
> down and rebooting I found that the root filesystem (/dev/hda1) had also
> been corrupted. Back to square one. I'd be tempted to use the old md on
> 2.0 if it would recognize the 36GB drives but...
There have been a count of discussions on severe fs corruption with
raid/smp IIRC on linux-kernel. Please post the problem to the list and
have Alan or Andrea have a look at it.
k
