2.6.11-rc4 md loops on missing drives

2005-02-15 Thread Brad Campbell
G'day all, I have just finished my shiny new RAID-6 box. 15 x 250GB SATA drives. While doing some failure testing (inadvertently due to libata SMART causing command errors) I dropped 3 drives out of the array in sequence. md coped with the first two (as it should), but after the third one dropped

Re: 2.6.11-rc4 md loops on missing drives

2005-02-15 Thread Neil Brown
On Tuesday February 15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'day all, I'm not really sure how it's supposed to cope with losing more disks than planned, but filling the syslog with nastiness is not very polite. Thanks for the bug report. There are actually a few problems relating to

Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 4211] New: md configuration destroys disk GPT label

2005-02-15 Thread Matt Domsch
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 02:10:01PM -0500, Guy wrote: Maybe I am confused, but if you use the whole disk, I would expect the whole disk could be over-written! What am I missing? You're right, and I added such comments (in a little more detail) to the bugzilla entry. Thanks, Matt -- Matt