Re: Kernel 2.6.23.9 + mdadm 2.6.2-2 + Auto rebuild RAID1?

2007-12-07 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Dec 7 2007 07:30, Nix wrote: On 6 Dec 2007, Jan Engelhardt verbalised: On Dec 5 2007 19:29, Nix wrote: On Dec 1 2007 06:19, Justin Piszcz wrote: RAID1, 0.90.03 superblocks (in order to be compatible with LILO, if you use 1.x superblocks with LILO you can't boot) Says who? (Don't use

Re: [PATCH] (2nd try) force parallel resync

2007-12-07 Thread Bernd Schubert
Hello Neil, On Friday 07 December 2007 03:10:37 Neil Brown wrote: On Thursday December 6, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, here is the second version of the patch. With this version also on setting /sys/block/*/md/sync_force_parallel the sync_thread is woken up. Though, I still don't

Re: raid6 check/repair

2007-12-07 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 03:31:14PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: BTW: if this can be done in a user program, mdadm, rather than by code in the kernel, that might well make everyone happy. Okay, realistically less unhappy. I start to like the idea. Of course you can't repair a running array

Re: Few questions

2007-12-07 Thread Corey Hickey
Michael Makuch wrote: I realize this is the developers list and though I am a developer I'm not a developer of linux raid, but I can find no other source of answers to these questions: Don't worry; it's a user list too. $ cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] md0 :

unable to remove failed drive

2007-12-07 Thread Jeff Breidenbach
... and all access to array hangs indefinitely, resulting in unkillable zombie processes. Have to hard reboot the machine. Any thoughts on the matter? === # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] md1 : active raid1 sde1[6](F) sdg1[1] sdb1[4] sdd1[3] sdc1[2] 488383936 blocks [6/4]

RE: Few questions

2007-12-07 Thread Guy Watkins
man md man mdadm I use RAID6. Happy with it so far, but haven't had a disk failure yet. RAID5 sucks because if you have 1 failed disk and 1 bad block on any other disk, you are hosed. Hope that helps. } -Original Message- } From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:linux-raid- } [EMAIL

Few questions

2007-12-07 Thread Michael Makuch
I realize this is the developers list and though I am a developer I'm not a developer of linux raid, but I can find no other source of answers to these questions: I've been using linux software raid (5) for a couple of years, having recently uped to the 2.6.23 kernel (FC7, was previously on