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[Seth Forshee <seth.forshee+lp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 11:10:39AM -0000, RoyK wrote:
> Even if no bugs has been filed for lucid, I guess this should be fixed
> there as well. A double disk failure in RAID-6 isn't very common, and
> corruptions may not be easily detected. AFAICS the issue is also in the
> lucid kernel, but then, it's just another 6 months before lucid is EOL
> :P

I didn't say it wouldn't be fixed. I just don't plan to rush out a fix
that I can't get tested. The commit is marked for stable, so it should
be included in the next 2.6.32 stable release.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1364091

Title:
  Possible RAID-6 corruption

Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “mdadm” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  It seems there's a bug in newer kernels that may lead to corruption on
  RAID-6. There's a fix, too

  http://lwn.net/Articles/608896/

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