ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.5.3 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux

2006-08-06 Thread Neil Brown
I am pleased to announce the availability of mdadm version 2.5.3 It is available at the usual places: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/ and countrycode=xx. http://www.${countrycode}kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/ and via git at git://neil.brown.name/mdadm ht

Re: [patch] raid1: allow user to force reads from a specific disk

2006-08-06 Thread Neil Brown
On Sunday August 6, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Allow user to force raid1 to read all data from a given disk. > This lets users do integrity checking by comparing results > from reading different disks. If at any time the system finds > it cannot read from the given disk it resets the disk number >

[patch] raid1: allow user to force reads from a specific disk

2006-08-06 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Allow user to force raid1 to read all data from a given disk. This lets users do integrity checking by comparing results from reading different disks. If at any time the system finds it cannot read from the given disk it resets the disk number to -1, the default, which means to balance reads. Sig