Re: IBM xSeries stop responding during RAID1 reconstruction

On Thursday 15 June 2006 12:13, you wrote: If this is causing a lockup, then there is something else wrong, just as any single process should not - by writing constantly to disks - be able to clog up the whole system. Maybe if you could get the result of alt-sysrq-P I tried some kernel

Re: Raid5 software problems after loosing 4 disks for 48 hours

Neil great stuff, its online now!!! I followed your 2nd suggestion and ran mdadm --create /dev/md0 -f -l5 -n15 -c32 /dev/sd[bcdefghijklmnop]1 , after 8 hours we reached 99.9% and some errors appeared on sdh1 which was then kicked from archive but it was fully online. Ill see if any further

Re: Raid5 reshape

Neil Brown wrote: On Friday June 16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for all the advice. One final question, what kernel and mdadm versions do I need? For resizing raid5: mdadm-2.4 or later linux-2.6.17-rc2 or later NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Raid5 software problems after loosing 4 disks for 48 hours

Wilson Wilson wrote: Neil great stuff, its online now!!! Congratulations :) I am still unsure how this raid5 volume was partially readable with 4 disks missing. My understanding each file is written across all disks apart from one, which is used for CRC. So if 2 disks are offline the whole

Re: Raid5 reshape

On Saturday June 17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any ideas what I should do next? Thanks Looks like you've probably hit a bug. I'll need a bit more info though. First: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid5] [raid4] md0 : active raid5 sdb1[1] sda1[0] hdc1[4](S)

Re: Raid5 reshape

Nigel J. Terry wrote: Neil Brown wrote: On Saturday June 17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any ideas what I should do next? Thanks Looks like you've probably hit a bug. I'll need a bit more info though. First: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid5] [raid4]

Re: Raid5 reshape

OK, thanks for the extra details. I'll have a look and see what I can find, but it'll probably be a couple of days before I have anything useful for you. NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-raid in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Re: Raid5 reshape

Neil Brown wrote: OK, thanks for the extra details. I'll have a look and see what I can find, but it'll probably be a couple of days before I have anything useful for you. NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-raid in the body of a message to [EMAIL