Re: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.4 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux

2006-03-30 Thread Farkas Levente
Neil Brown wrote: I am pleased to announce the availability of mdadm version 2.4 It is available at the usual places: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/ and http://www.{countrycode}.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/ mdadm is a tool for creating, managing and

Re: with the latest mdadm

2006-02-07 Thread Farkas Levente
Neil Brown wrote: On Tuesday February 7, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, with the latest mdadm-2.3.1 we've got the following message: - md: md4: sync done. RAID1 conf printout: --- wd:2 rd:2 disk 0, wo:0, o:1, dev:sda2 disk 1, wo:0, o:1, dev:sdb2 md:

Re: raid5 write performance

2005-11-19 Thread Farkas Levente
Neil Brown wrote: The other is to use a filesystem that allows the problem to be avoided by making sure that the only blocks that can be corrupted are dead blocks. This could be done with a copy-on-write filesystem that knows about the raid5 geometry, and only ever writes to a stripe when no

Re: why the kernel and mdadm report differently

2005-09-05 Thread Farkas Levente
Neil Brown wrote: On Monday September 5, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, one of our raid array is crash all the time (once a week), Any kernel error messages? i already send report about this a few times to this list without any response, but i send you a private message will all logs.

Re: why the kernel and mdadm report differently

2005-09-05 Thread Farkas Levente
David M. Strang wrote: Farkas Levente wrote: this is mdadm 1.12, just another site note there is no rpm for version 2.0:-( No. I seem to remember some odd compile issue with making the RPM and thinking I don't care. Maybe I should care a bit more would be useful. Not trying

sofware raid5 oops

2005-07-11 Thread Farkas Levente
anybody has any useful tip about it? yours. Original Message hi, after we switch our servers from centos-3 to centos-4 (aka. rhel-4) one of our server always crash once a week without any oops. this happneds with both the normal kernel-2.6.9-11.EL and