[CentOS] Re: Weird crash with CentOS 5.1

Sat Jan 5 13:03:53 UTC 2008
Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>

Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Jan 5, 2008 2:46 AM, Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com> wrote:
>> AFAIR that is fakeraid anyway. Maybe one of the drives is having a problem.
>> Could be that the dmraid driver isn't as robust as software raid with drive
>> problems. You could eliminate the hardware (except the drives) by swapping
>> drives from one of the known working machines into this one and see what
>> happens. IF it borks, bad hardware, if not, bad drives or bad install.
> 
> It may be fakeraid,, but it's the only RAID solution that will work in
> both Windows and Linux and allow to transfer files between both
> system.
> If I were to use linux software raid, I wouldn't be able to access the
> linux partition under windows.
> 
> I doubt it's a hardware issue for the following reasons:
> 1-Windows works fine with intensive disk activity
> 2-Fedora 8 works fine too.
> 3-It's only Centos kernel that crashes when using those drives.

I am sure it is a raid driver issue.

Have you considered running one of the OSes (linux or windows) in a VM.

That way, you can share files and have both available at the same time,
unlike dual boot, where you need to reboot to get the other OS.

In that scenario you do not need to use fraid as one OS can be a virtual
file system inside the other.

CentOS does not do the "latest and greatest" drivers very well ...
though they may bring bugfixes back from newer kernels, I would not
count on that happening.

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