Re: what does md do if it finds an inconsistency?

2007-05-06 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007.05.06.0245 +0200]: With the check feature of the recent md feature, the question popped up what happens when an inconsistency is found. Does it fix it? If so, which disk it assumes to be wrong if an inconsistency is found? What I meant was of

Re: what does md do if it finds an inconsistency?

2007-05-06 Thread Eyal Lebedinsky
martin f krafft wrote: also sprach martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007.05.06.0245 +0200]: With the check feature of the recent md feature, the question popped up what happens when an inconsistency is found. Does it fix it? If so, which disk it assumes to be wrong if an inconsistency is

Re: what does md do if it finds an inconsistency?

2007-05-06 Thread martin f krafft
The first time it reports that it found (and repaired) 128 items. It does not mean that you now *have* 128 mismatches. The next run ('repair' or 'check') will find none (hopefully...) and report zero. Oh, this makes perfect sense, thanks for the explanation. As the mdadm maintainer for

Re: Speed variation depending on disk position (was: Linux SW RAID: HW Raid Controller/JBOD vs. Multiple PCI-e Cards?)

2007-05-06 Thread Mark Hahn
very same question. Is the behavior you are describing above manufacturer dependent or it is pretty much dictated by the general design of modern drives? the latter. the industry keyword is Zone Bit Recording, which simply tries to record data as densely as possible - determined by linear

Re: what does md do if it finds an inconsistency?

2007-05-06 Thread Gavin McCullagh
On Sun, 06 May 2007, martin f krafft wrote: Maybe the ideal way would be to have mdadm --monitor send an email on mismatch_count0 or a cronjob that regularly sends reminders, until the admin logs in and runs e.g. /usr/share/mdadm/repairarray. Also, if a mismatch is found on a RAID1, how

Re: Speed variation depending on disk position

2007-05-06 Thread Richard Scobie
Peter Rabbitson wrote: design of modern drives? I have an array of 4 Maxtor sata drives, and raw read performance at the end of the disk is 38mb/s compared to 62mb/s at the beginning. At least one supplier of terabyte arrays mitigates this effect and improves seek times, by using 750GB

Re: what does md do if it finds an inconsistency?

2007-05-06 Thread Neil Brown
On Sunday May 6, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 06 May 2007, martin f krafft wrote: Maybe the ideal way would be to have mdadm --monitor send an email on mismatch_count0 or a cronjob that regularly sends reminders, until the admin logs in and runs e.g. /usr/share/mdadm/repairarray. You

Re: Raid1 replaced with raid10?

2007-05-06 Thread Neil Brown
On Friday May 4, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Rabbitson wrote: Hi, I asked this question back in march but received no answers, so here it goes again. Is it safe to replace raid1 with raid10 where the amount of disks is equal to the amount of far/near/offset copies? I understand it

RE: RAID6 question

2007-05-06 Thread Neil Brown
On Friday May 4, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: } -Original Message- } From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:linux-raid- } [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Guy Watkins } Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2007 8:52 PM } To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org } Subject: RAID6 question } } I read in processor.com

Re: attempt to access beyond end of device on RAID0 with mdadm

2007-05-06 Thread Neil Brown
On Wednesday May 2, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am using Debian 3.1 (sarge) with 2.6.17.13-gen64-smp kernel. I have storage of 53 TB (6 units with 9.5 T). All of them are stripped (Raid0) using mdadm 1.9.0. On this unit have created with LVM2 Volume Group and 3 logical Volumes. One