RAID6 issue: md_do_sync() got signal ... exiting

2007-11-30 Thread thomas62186218
Hi all, I am having trouble with creating a RAID 6 md device on a home-grown Linux 2.6.20.11 SMP 64-bit build. I first create the RAID6 without problems, and see the following successful dump in /var/log/messages. If I check /proc/mdstat, the RAID6 is doing the initial syncing as expected.

Re: raid6 check/repair

2007-11-30 Thread Thiemo Nagel
Dear Neil, The point that I'm trying to make is, that there does exist a specific case, in which recovery is possible, and that implementing recovery for that case will not hurt in any way. Assuming that it true (maybe hpa got it wrong) what specific conditions would lead to one drive having

Re: assemble vs create an array.......

2007-11-30 Thread Bryce
Dragos wrote: Hello, I had created a raid 5 array on 3 232GB SATA drives. I had created one partition (for /home) formatted with either xfs or reiserfs (I do not recall). Last week I reinstalled my box from scratch with Ubuntu 7.10, with mdadm v. 2.6.2-1ubuntu2. Then I made a rookie mistake:

Re: raid6 check/repair

2007-11-30 Thread Thiemo Nagel
Dear Neil and Eyal, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: Neil Brown wrote: It would seem that either you or Peter Anvin is mistaken. On page 9 of http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hpa/raid6.pdf at the end of section 4 it says: Finally, as a word of caution it should be noted that

Re: assemble vs create an array.......

2007-11-30 Thread David Greaves
Neil Brown wrote: On Thursday November 29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. Do you know of any way to recover from this mistake? Or at least what filesystem it was formated with. It may not have been lost - yet. If you created the same array with the same devices and layout etc, the data will

Re: assemble vs create an array.......

2007-11-30 Thread Dragos
I forgot one thing. After re-creating the array which deleted my data in the first place, 'mount' was giving me this answer: mount: Structure needs cleaning Thank you for your time, Dragos - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-raid in the body of a message to