Failed disk triggers raid5.c bug?

2001-06-14 Thread Ian Thurlbeck
Dear All I've just had a disk (sdc) fail in my raid5 array (sdb sdc sdd), and I noticed that it triggered a bug (?) in raid5.c, line 523: kernel: md: bug in file raid5.c, line 523 Is it OK to ignore this ? I'm running 2.4.5ac13. Thanks! Ian --- excerpt from messages --- Jun 14 07:10:42

Re: mdctl - names and code

2001-06-14 Thread Mike Black
OK...when I do mdTAB I currently get: md5sum mdatopbm Not too bad. Should work for most people. As for migrating this...all old utils should have a wrapper for a while (maybe quite a while - a year or so?) that points the users to the new command. e.g. mkraid /dev/md0 Error: mkraid has been

Re: mdctl - names and code

2001-06-14 Thread Douglas Egan
raidctl is already used in the BSD camp. RAIDCTL(8) NetBSD System Manager's Manual RAIDCTL(8) NAME raidctl - configuration utility for the RAIDframe disk driver Neil Brown wrote: Thankyou for all the suggestions for names for mdctl. We have raidctl

du discrepancies?

2001-06-14 Thread Brad Hubbard
There appears to be a discrepancy between the true state of affairs on my RAID partitions and what df reports; [root /]# sfdisk -l /dev/hda Disk /dev/hda: 38792 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track Units = cylinders of 516096 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 Device Boot

Re: du discrepancies?

2001-06-14 Thread Neil Brown
On Friday June 15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There appears to be a discrepancy between the true state of affairs on my RAID partitions and what df reports; [root /]# sfdisk -l /dev/hda Disk /dev/hda: 38792 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track Units = cylinders of 516096 bytes, blocks

Re: du discrepancies?

2001-06-14 Thread Brad Hubbard
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 13:25, Neil Brown wrote: hda1 has 768095 1K blocks. md/raid rounds down to a multiple of 64K, and then removes the last 64k for the raid super block, leaving 768000 1K blocks. ext2fs uses some of this for metad, and reports the rest as the available space. The