Problems with RAID and NFS on 2.2.17

2000-11-06 Thread Erik Heinz
Hi, I would like to know if there are any known conflicts between current RAID and NFS patches for Linux-2.2.17. I am using raid-2.2.17-A0, linux-2.2.17-nfsv3-0.23.1 and dhiggen-over-0.23.1 patches. The system usually works fine, but every 1-2 weeks the kernel seems to run into problems. There

Re: Problems with RAID and NFS on 2.2.17

2000-11-06 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Erik Heinz wrote: Hi, I would like to know if there are any known conflicts between current RAID and NFS patches for Linux-2.2.17. I am using raid-2.2.17-A0, linux-2.2.17-nfsv3-0.23.1 and dhiggen-over-0.23.1 patches. The system usually works fine, but every 1-2

Re: RH7 + new kernel + root RAID-5 = ext2 corruption on boot?

2000-11-06 Thread Corin Hartland-Swann
Dan, On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, Dan Browning wrote: '/' mounted on RAID-5 IIRC, lilo cannot deal with RAID-5 partitions at boot time - only RAID-1 (and maybe RAID-0?) * When booting with newly created '/dev/md0' as '/', it is reported corrupt and needs a manual fsck * The manual fsck

Re: newbie problems

2000-11-06 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Shaggy Im-erbtham wrote: My box is Slackware 7.0 (kernel 2.2.13) which had raidtools-0.41 installed. My immediate problem is that the tutorials I read (as well as the one included with the package) uses "mdrun" as part of the installation process of raid. Well, I don't

RE: RH7 + new kernel + root RAID-5 = ext2 corruption on boot?

2000-11-06 Thread Dan Browning
Thank you for your reply, Corin Hartland-Swann. I've gotten my / up and running on RAID-5. Now I have another problem. It is described in the following bugreport that I posted to linux-kernel. The system is running RAID, but I don't think the problem is RAID related (more of IDE related). As

PATCH: raid1 - assorted bug fixes

2000-11-06 Thread Neil Brown
Linus, The following patch addresses a small number of bugs in raid1.c in 2.4.0-test10. 1/ A number of routines that are called from interrupt context used spin_lock_irq / spin_unlock_irq instead of the more appropriate spin_lock_irqsave( ,flags) / spin_unlock_irqrestore(

Re: Kernel 2.4.0test10 crash (RAID+SMP)

2000-11-06 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote: Neil Brown wrote: It looks like an interupt is happening while another interrupt is happening, which should be impossible... but it isn't. If multiple interrupts are hitting a single code path (like IDE irqs 14 -and- 15), you definitely have to

Re: Kernel 2.4.0test10 crash (RAID+SMP)

2000-11-06 Thread Jeff Garzik
Neil Brown wrote: It looks like an interupt is happening while another interrupt is happening, which should be impossible... but it isn't. If multiple interrupts are hitting a single code path (like IDE irqs 14 -and- 15), you definitely have to think about that. The reentrancy guarantee only

newbie problems

2000-11-06 Thread Shaggy Im-erbtham
My box is Slackware 7.0 (kernel 2.2.13) which had raidtools-0.41 installed. My immediate problem is that the tutorials I read (as well as the one included with the package) uses "mdrun" as part of the installation process of raid. Well, I don't have it. The installation left me with