Re: [coLinux-devel] Problem with raid5, hangs after reading a few bytes

[Henry N. <hen...@ar...>]

Hello David,

David Rorex wrote:
> I'm having trouble writing a quick way to reproduce it, it seems the
> same problem doesn't happen if I just use loop devices. That means the
> minimal way to reproduce might be for you to have three separate actual
> partitions to use for a raid-5 test :(
>
> I'll see if I can write the minimal steps for reproducing, assuming you
> create 3 small empty partitions on  your disk first.

Creating partitions on a disk is a problem for mostly testers.
An older Bug #1569947 has some instructions and testing steps. Perhaps 
you can use these also for your test here?

see:
"Data corruption on md/raid5 under 0.6.3 and also 0.7.1-hn14"
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1569947&group_id=98788&atid=622063

-- 
Henry N.