Re: Failed disk triggers raid5.c bug?

2001-06-26 Thread Neil Brown
On Monday June 25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way for the RAID code to be smarter when deciding about those event counters? Does it have any chance (theoretically) to _know_ that it shouldn't use the drive with event count 28? My current thinking is that once a raid array becomes

Mounting very old style raid on a recent machine?

2001-06-26 Thread Marc Haber
Hi, I currently have to salvage data from an ancient box that looks like to have run kernel 2.0.35. However, the system on that disk is corrupted and won't boot any more (at least not on today's hardware). It looks like main data is on a RAID. /etc/mdtab: |/dev/md0 linear

Re: Mounting very old style raid on a recent machine?

2001-06-26 Thread Neil Brown
On Tuesday June 26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I currently have to salvage data from an ancient box that looks like to have run kernel 2.0.35. However, the system on that disk is corrupted and won't boot any more (at least not on today's hardware). It looks like main data is on a RAID.