Re: Silent Corruption on RAID5

2006-01-27 Thread Molle Bestefich
Michael Barnwell wrote: I'm experiencing silent data corruption on my RAID 5 set of four 400GB SATA disks. I have circa the same hardware: * AMD Opteron 250 * Silicon Image 3114 * 300 GB Maxtor SATA Just to add a data point, I've run your test on my RAID 1 (not RAID 5 !) without problems.

Re: [PATCH 006 of 7] md: Checkpoint and allow restart of raid5 reshape

2006-01-27 Thread Molle Bestefich
NeilBrown wrote: We allow the superblock to record an 'old' and a 'new' geometry, and a position where any conversion is up to. When starting an array we check for an incomplete reshape and restart the reshape process if needed. *Super* cool! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: blog entry on RAID limitation

2006-01-27 Thread Molle Bestefich
Rik Herrin wrote: Wouldn't connecting a UPS + using a stable kernel version remove 90% or so of the RAID-5 write hole problem? There are some RAID systems that you'd rather not have redundant power on. Think encryption. As long as a system is online, it's normal for it to have encryption

mdadm 2.2 segmentation fault

2006-01-27 Thread Stephan van Hienen
when i try to start my raid with mdadm 2.2 it gives a segfault : ]# mdadm -A /dev/md0 Segmentation fault and dmesg shows : md: md0 stopped. mdadm 1.12 shows : ]# mdadm -A /dev/md0 mdadm: /dev/md0 has been started with 15 drives. after i start the md0 with mdadm 1.12, it looks like 2.2 is

Re: Problems with multiple Promise SATA150 TX4 cards

2006-01-27 Thread berk walker
Mitchell Laks wrote: Hi, Thank you all for all of your work on this topic. 1) I apologize for my email bouncing. I have no real choice in dsl service. Perhaps I will consider cable to prevent my mail bouncing! :) 2) I am able to hang 10 drives on 3 of the Promise SATA150 TX4 cards. So far

Re: mdadm 2.2 segmentation fault

2006-01-27 Thread Andre Noll
On 14:12, Stephan van Hienen wrote: when i try to start my raid with mdadm 2.2 it gives a segfault : See http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-raid@vger.kernel.org/msg03242.html -- Jesus not only saves, he also frequently makes backups - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [PATCH 2.6.15-git9a] aoe [1/1]: do not stop retransmit timer when device goes down

2006-01-27 Thread Al Boldi
Ed L. Cashin wrote: On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 01:04:37AM +0300, Al Boldi wrote: Ed L. Cashin wrote: This patch is a bugfix that follows and depends on the eight aoe driver patches sent January 19th. Will they also fix this? Or is this an md bug? No, this patch fixes a bug that would

Business Proposal!

2006-01-27 Thread Mr Chang Lee
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Re: raid not creating

2006-01-27 Thread Neil Brown
On Friday January 27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md4 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/hde3 /dev/hdg3 mdadm: /dev/hde3 appears to contain an ext2fs file system size=35214480K mtime=Thu Jan 26 13:38:20 2006 mdadm: /dev/hdg3 appears to contain an ext2fs file