Re: [PATCH 009 of 11] md: Support stripe/offset mode in raid10

2006-05-08 Thread Neil Brown
On Wednesday May 3, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neil Brown wrote: On Tuesday May 2, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NeilBrown wrote: The industry standard DDF format allows for a stripe/offset layout where data is duplicated on different stripes. e.g. A B C D D A B C

Re: Horrific Raid 5 crash... help!

2006-05-08 Thread Molle Bestefich
David M. Strang wrote: Well today, during this illustrious rebuild... it appears I actually DID have a disk fail. So, I have 26 disks... 1 partially rebuilt, and 1 failed. Common scenario it seems. Hoping and praying that a rebuild didn't actually wipe the disk and maybe just synced things

Re: strange RAID5 problem

2006-05-08 Thread Neil Brown
On Monday May 8, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good evening. I am having a bit of a problem with a largish RAID5 set. Now it is looking more and more like I am about to lose all the data on it, so I am asking (begging?) to see if anyone can help me sort this out. Very thorough description, but

Re: slackware -current softraid5 boot problem

2006-05-08 Thread Luca Berra
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 12:06:32AM +0200, Dexter Filmore wrote: Finally got me a bunch of disks as a raid 5, I don't even want to boot from it, plain data array. four sata-II samsungs on a sil3114 controller, all fine so far. Booting the machine I get no superblock on /dev/sdd, stopping