Re: [PATCH] [PPC32] ADMA support for PPC 440SPe processors.

- a complete new patch, or an incrementan one on top of what we submitted now? (I'd prefer incremental, but will do whatever works better for you). Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, HRB 165235 Munich, CEO: Wolfgang Denk Office: Kirchenstr. 5, D

Re: Data corruption on software raid.

memory errors under certain usage patterns. Make sur to run a memory test, and/or try changing RAM. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, HRB 165235 Munich, CEO: Wolfgang Denk Office: Kirchenstr. 5, D-82194 Groebenzell,Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10

Re: Backups w/ rsync

: $ wget -N ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.12.tar.gz Are you aware that this file will never be backed up by your script? Also, what about permission / owner changes etc.? A backup tool should never work based on timestamps alone. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX

Re: RAID5 lockup with AMCC440 and async-tx

using more than one controller adds to the likelyhood of being hit by this race condition. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49

Re: New XFS benchmarks using David Chinner's recommendations for XFS-based optimizations.

In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: what is nobarrier ? ... # mount -o logbsize=256k,nobarrier dev mtpt See http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/faq.html Q: How can I address the problem with the write cache? Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang

Re: identifying failed disk/s in an array.

are using udev). Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Command, n.: Statement

Re: recommendations for stripe/chunk size

to select kernel page sizes of 4, 16, 64 and 256 kB for some PowerPC systems (440SPe, to be precise). A nice graphics of the effect can be found here: https://www.amcc.com/MyAMCC/retrieveDocument/PowerPC/440SPe/RAIDinLinux_PB_0529a.pdf Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering

Re: recommendations for stripe/chunk size

%are smaller than 4 kB 80%are smaller than 8 kB 90%are smaller than 16 kB 96%are smaller than 32 kB 98.4% are smaller than 64 kB You don't want - for example - huge stripe sizes in such a system. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX