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From: "NeilBrown" <neilb@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: raid is dangerous but that's secret
Cc: "Ric Wheeler" <rwheeler@redhat.com>, "Pavel Machek" <pavel@ucw.cz>,
       "Rob Landley" <rob@landley.net>, "Theodore Tso" <tytso@mit.edu>,
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On Fri, August 28, 2009 5:11 pm, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Ric Wheeler:
>
>> You continue to ignore the technical facts that everyone (both MD and
>> ext3) people put in front of you.
>>
>> If you have a specific bug in MD code, please propose a patch.
>
> In RAID 1 mode, it should read both copies and error out on
> mismatch. 8-)

Despite your smiley:

  no it shouldn't, and no one is making any claims about raid1 being
  unsafe, only raid4/5/6.

NeilBrown