On Friday, May 14, 2010 08:50 AM, Rainer Fuegenstein
wrote:> hi guys,
>
> is there an estimate when centos 5.5 will be released?
>
> I'm sitting on needles here, because since I moved my 4*1.5TB raid5
> from an asus to an intel D510 mainboard I encounter bug the described
> here:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512552
>
> short version: running xfs on top of a raid5 under heavy load causes
> corrupted data to be read and the filesystem shutting down
> occasionally.
That bug does not appear to be hardware specific.
>
> version 5.5 should solve this problem. if 5.5 is just a few days away
> I'll keep waiting, but if it takes much longer I'll need to work
> around this problem like going back to the old mainboard, compiling
> the kernel myself, switching to ext3 - none of which I'm eager to do.
>
Trying the raid5 patch for md and rolling your own kernel seems to be
the best option if you cannot wait...or you could use the ones them
Redhat engineers have put up.