Re: /bsd raid0 Error re-writing parity!

2009-07-15 Thread Greg Oster
the rebuild. ) Later... Greg Oster

Re: RaidFrame woes on 4.2 (RAIDFRAME: failed rf_ConfigureDisks with 2)

2007-10-14 Thread Greg Oster
is here: http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sbin/raidctl/rf_configure.c.diff?r1=1.19r2=1.20 ) Otherwise what you have is just fine.. Later... Greg Oster

Re: RAID1 powerloss - can parity rewrite be safely backgrounded?

2007-09-28 Thread Greg Oster
understand the features and benefits of both, do the analysis, and pick the one that will work best for you. Later... Greg Oster

Re: RAID1 powerloss - can parity rewrite be safely backgrounded?

2007-09-28 Thread Greg Oster
'!?!?!?!. That wasn't a fun day.) Later... Greg Oster On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Rob wrote: On 9/25/07, Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running a RAID1 mirror on OpenBSD 4.1 (webserver) On a power failure the parity becomes dirty and needs rewriting, which results in 1.5 hours 'downtime

Re: Seeking info for RAID 1 on OpenBSD

2007-08-04 Thread Greg Oster
what level of risk you can accept, and go from there... Later... Greg Oster

Re: raid dmesg output and raidctl -sv output shows differrent status for raidframe mirror on OpenBSD 4.0 amd64

2007-03-08 Thread Greg Oster
Siju George writes: On 3/8/07, Greg Oster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Siju George writes: In my dmesg at one point it says == Kernelized RAIDframe activated dkcsum: wd0 matches BIOS drive 0x80 dkcsum: wd1 matches BIOS drive 0x81 root

Re: raid dmesg output and raidctl -sv output shows differrent status for raidframe mirror on OpenBSD 4.0 amd64

2007-03-08 Thread Greg Oster
Siju George writes: On 3/8/07, Greg Oster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Kernelized RAIDframe activated Searching for raid components... dkcsum: wd0 matches BIOS drive 0x80 dkcsum: wd1 matches BIOS drive 0x81 root on wd0a rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0x300 rawdev=0x302 RAIDFRAME

Re: raid dmesg output and raidctl -sv output shows differrent status for raidframe mirror on OpenBSD 4.0 amd64

2007-03-07 Thread Greg Oster
Siju George writes: On 3/6/07, Greg Oster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Siju George writes: It's working just fine... just probably telling you a bit more than you really wanted to know :) Later... Greg, Seeing that you work on RAIDFRAME let me dare to ask you one more thing

Re: raid dmesg output and raidctl -sv output shows differrent status for raidframe mirror on OpenBSD 4.0 amd64

2007-03-07 Thread Greg Oster
Siju George writes: On 3/6/07, Greg Oster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Siju George writes: It's working just fine... just probably telling you a bit more than you really wanted to know :) Later... Greg, Seeing that you work on RAIDFRAME let me dare to ask you one more thing

Re: raid dmesg output and raidctl -sv output shows differrent status for raidframe mirror on OpenBSD 4.0 amd64

2007-03-05 Thread Greg Oster
, the line to really care about is this one: Parity status: clean Is the Raid not working properly? It's working just fine... just probably telling you a bit more than you really wanted to know :) Later... Greg Oster

Re: Raidframe parity problems

2006-12-04 Thread Greg Oster
questionable... In any event, 'raidctl -P' isn't going to do anything useful until you get wd3a (or its replacment) added back into the array Later... Greg Oster

Re: RAIDFrame parity rebuild: why so slow?

2006-10-03 Thread Greg Oster
CCD vs RAID0..) Later... Greg Oster

Re: Replacing a failed HD in a raidframe array

2006-09-07 Thread Greg Oster
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Re: RAIDframe Root on RAID -- configuring dump device

2006-08-29 Thread Greg Oster
it, but not to swap on a RAID set... Later... Greg Oster

Re: RAIDframe Root on RAID -- configuring dump device

2006-08-29 Thread Greg Oster
Josh Grosse writes: On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 02:28:50PM -0600, Greg Oster wrote: Josh Grosse writes: Has anyone using Root on RAID managed to point their dumpdev at a swap sp ace, either within a RAID array or on a standard swap partition? Dumping to a standard swap partition

Re: raidctl on a live raid array, and the kernel debugger

2006-07-17 Thread Greg Oster
.) Later... Greg Oster

Re: raidctl on a live raid array, and the kernel debugger

2006-07-12 Thread Greg Oster
in OpenBSD though :( ) Later... Greg Oster

Re: no raid reconstruction with autoconfigured sets

2006-06-29 Thread Greg Oster
. How long did you wait for the reconstruction to finish? For the above output, note that it still says reconstructing for component1... When that finishes, it will say spared. Later... Greg Oster

Re: no raid reconstruction with autoconfigured sets

2006-06-29 Thread Greg Oster
Walter Haidinger writes: First of all: Thanks for replying to an issue with a non-generic kernel! I really appreciate that! That it was a non-generic kernel didn't even cross my mind... it was an issue w/ RAIDframe, and that's why I responded... On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, Greg Oster wrote

Re: RAIDframe, swapping components in a RAID 1 array

2006-05-22 Thread Greg Oster
to recall a bug related to component labels on used spares not being updated properly after a reconstruct, and I think re-running the '-i' option was the workaround... Later... Greg Oster

Re: RAID label problem?

2006-03-22 Thread Greg Oster
* c: 160171392 0 unused 0 0 # Cyl 0 -15641 7* 435841403 + 1416925149 = 1852766552 which is greater than 160171392 by 1692595160. If you fix the offset of 'a', I suspect things will be happier. Later... Greg Oster

Re: RAID label problem?

2006-03-22 Thread Greg Oster
places in the DIOCWDINFO code path where ENOSPC is returned... but one of them is in raidstrategy(). Later... Greg Oster

Re: RAIDframe parity errors and rebuild

2006-03-19 Thread Greg Oster
in the way of the fsck or the system coming up... about an hour after it comes up, the disks are then checked... It's one of those what are the odds games... allowing the raidctl to run in the background seems to have the right mix of paranoia and practicality... Later... Greg Oster

Re: raidFrame creating error: sd0(mpt0:0:0): Check Condition (error 0x70) on opcode 0x28

2006-03-15 Thread Greg Oster
raid1 parity: can't read stripe. Could not verify parity. Is this early in the initialization or late in the initialization? Try doing: dd if=/dev/rsd0d of=/dev/null bs=10m and see if you get the same error message... Later... Greg Oster

Re: raidFrame creating error: sd0(mpt0:0:0): Check Condition (error 0x70) on opcode 0x28

2006-03-15 Thread Greg Oster
Adam PAPAI writes: Greg Oster wrote: Adam PAPAI writes: Hello misc, I have an IBM xSeries 335 machine with Dual Xeon processor and 2x73GB SCSI Seagate Barracuda 10K rpm disc. I run OpenBSD 3.8 on it. When I'm creating the raid array (raidctl -iv raid0), I get the following error

Re: raidFrame creating error: sd0(mpt0:0:0): Check Condition (error 0x70) on opcode 0x28

2006-03-15 Thread Greg Oster
it's strictly not necessary). Later... Greg Oster

Re: raidFrame creating error: sd0(mpt0:0:0): Check Condition (error 0x70) on opcode 0x28

2006-03-15 Thread Greg Oster
Adam PAPAI writes: Greg Oster wrote: Adam PAPAI writes: After reboot my dmesg end: rootdev=0x400 rrootdev=0xd00 rawdev=0xd02 Hosed component: /dev/sd0d. raid0: Ignoring /dev/sd0d. raid0: Component /dev/sd1d being configured at row: 0 col: 1 Row: 0 Column: 1 Num Rows: 1 Num

Re: RAIDframe question

2006-02-01 Thread Greg Oster
in the face of drives that move about or drives that fail to spin up... (the old config code needs to find its way into a bit-bucket..) You really want to use the autoconfigure bits.. :) Really. :) Later... Greg Oster

Re: RAIDframe question

2006-02-01 Thread Greg Oster
RAIDframe devices. If the underlying device can provide something that looks/ smells like a disk partition, that's good enough for RAIDframe. Later... Greg Oster

Re: RAIDframe question

2006-02-01 Thread Greg Oster
the latest versions of the documentation, and to provide feedback to the author on what you feel is lacking. Later... Greg Oster

Re: RAIDframe question

2006-02-01 Thread Greg Oster
Andy Hayward writes: On 2/1/06, Greg Oster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Fraser writes: and as a result all file writes to the failed drive queued up in memory, I've never seen that behaviour... I find it hard to believe that you'd be able to queue up 2 days worth of writes

Re: RAIDframe issues on 3.8

2005-12-07 Thread Greg Oster
case RAIDFRAME_GET_COMPONENT_LABEL: there is a: RF_Free( clabel, sizeof(RF_ComponentLabel_t)); missing before the: return(EINVAL); But that won't help with the problem your describing... (just noticed the above as I was perusing the code..) Later... Greg Oster

Re: RAIDframe issues on 3.8

2005-12-07 Thread Greg Oster
and try again. Yup. Do you have the cycles to get a bug in queue for the one you spotted on a quick once-over, before someone gets nailed by THAT one? I could open it, but it would merely say didn't run into the problem, but Greg Oster says its an obvious bug... ;-) I mentioned it here

Re: Updated CCD Mirroring HOWTO

2005-12-02 Thread Greg Oster
Nick Holland writes: Greg Oster wrote: ... Here's what I'd encourage you (or anyone else) to do: actually, I'd encourage you do try your own test. Results were interesting. Well... as we see, you did *your* version of the test, not mine ;) 1) Create a ccd as you describe in the HOWTO

Re: Updated CCD Mirroring HOWTO

2005-11-29 Thread Greg Oster
that difference, and how it warned you that if the primary drive died that you'd have incorrect data. If they don't differ, go buy a lottery ticket, cause it's your lucky day! ;) Later... Greg Oster