[linux-lvm] LVM 0.8 and reiser filesystem

[Luca Berra]

On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 02:59:54PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> In RAID5 that is very bad (e.g. when the parity block is not uptodate
> and another block is unreadable) you get silent data corruption. In
> RAID1 with a slave device you at worst get oudated data (may cause
I thought the event counter in the raid superblock was used for this
purpose.

[serious]
> Hardware RAID usually avoids the problem by using a battery backed 
> log device for atomic updates. Software Raid could do the same

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