Re: raid6 check/repair

2007-11-21 Thread Thiemo Nagel
Dear Neal, I have been looking a bit at the check/repair functionality in the raid6 personality. It seems that if an inconsistent stripe is found during repair, md does not try to determine which block is corrupt (using e.g. the method in section 4 of HPA's raid6 paper), but just recomputes

RE: Offtopic: hardware advice for SAS RAID6

2007-11-21 Thread Daniel Korstad
I would be very interested to hear how that card works or other suggestions discussions too. I have a 10 disk RAID 6 all inside a large case, using on board MB SATA and a couple 4 port PCI SATA cards. For one, my PCI bus is saturated and a bottle neck and it is a bit of a pain to replace

Re: raid6 check/repair

2007-11-21 Thread Neil Brown
On Wednesday November 21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Neal, I have been looking a bit at the check/repair functionality in the raid6 personality. It seems that if an inconsistent stripe is found during repair, md does not try to determine which block is corrupt (using e.g. the

Re: BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#1! (was Re: raid6 resync blocks the entire system)

2007-11-21 Thread Neil Brown
On Tuesday November 20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My personal (wild) guess for this problem is, that there is somewhere a global lock, preventing all other CPUs to do something. At 100%s (at 80 MB/s) there's probably not left any time frame to wake up the other CPUs or its sufficiently