Re: let md auto-detect 128+ raid members, fix potential race condition

2006-08-02 Thread Luca Berra
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 05:46:38PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: Using the mkinitrd patch that I posted before, the result was that mdadm did try to bring up all raid devices but, because the raid456 module was not loaded in initrd, the raid devices were left inactive. probably your initrd is

Re: let md auto-detect 128+ raid members, fix potential race condition

2006-08-02 Thread Luca Berra
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 06:32:33PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: Sure enough the LVM subsystem could make things better for one to not need all of the PVs in the root-containing VG in order to be able to mount root read-write, or at all, but if you think about it, if initrd it shouldn't need

Re: Converting Ext3 to Ext3 under RAID 1

2006-08-02 Thread Robert Heinzmann
Hi Dan, see thread http://www.spinics.net/lists/raid/msg07742.html. Regards, Robert Dan Graham schrieb: Hello; I have an existing, active ext3 filesystem which I would like to convert to a RAID 1 ext3 filesystem with minimal down time. After casting about the web and experimenting some

Re: [PATCH] md: new bitmap sysfs interface

2006-08-02 Thread Paul Clements
Neil Brown wrote: Is 'bitmap' the best name for the sysfs file? It seems a bit generic to me. write-bits-here-to-dirty-them-in-the-bitmap is probably (no, definitely) too verbose. dirty-in-bitmap maybe? bitmap-set-bits Any better suggestions? I like bitmap-set-bits or bitmap-dirty