[arch-general] RAID-0 kernel bug

[Francis Gerund]

Thanks for the replies.  I have been out of touch for a few days.  Sorry
for the delay in acknowledgement.


On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 6:17 AM, Temlin Olivér <temlin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 04:16:59AM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:
> > UUgh, dumb question, but... I have not used/configured this "discard",
> but I
> > do have 6 Raid0 arrays spinning on my Arch server. Does this corruption
> > potentially apply to me? Is this "discard" something that would be
> enabled
> > by default? I have never heard of it, so that is the only thing to that
> > concerns me. From the kernel thread, the fix is out on 5/22. What do I
> do to
> > test whether I suffered corruption?
>
> Hello!
> Discard is an option to use the built-in deletion function of flash storage
> drives, so no hard disks are vulnerable. Assuming that your drives are
> actually
> 'spinning' in your server, it's safe to assume that you are free of this
> bug.
>
> > --
> > David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
>