> ---Reply to mail from Patrick Rother about "question about reconstruction":
> > Do "cat /proc/mdstat". It will tell you the percentage of completed
> > reconstuction, and an estimated time to finish.
> > If the percentage does not increase at all, and the time-to-finish increases
> > all the time, it is possible that you kernel doesn't do any reconstruction
> > at all, but the reconstution process hangs. I had this several time esp.
> > with 2.2.12 and 2.2.13 kernels. 2.2.11 and 2.2.14 are ok.
>
> What has to be done then? Is a reboot and therefore a restart of the
> reconstruction process an option?
No.
When I was in this situation, I luckily had some other kernel to hand that
didn't have this problem. I let him reconstuct the array, and after that
I booted back to the other kernel.
> I plan to upgrade from old-style to new-style-raid, but on a 2.2.12 kernel.
Go to directly to 2.2.14, and use the patch announced on the list several
times. It works correctly for me.
krd.
