Re: New FAQ entry? (was IBM xSeries stop responding during RAID1 reconstruction)

2006-06-21 Thread Gil
I agree -- if you're talking about changing the io scheduler for the duration of a resync you should take this approach rather than changing kernels or rebooting. --Gil - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: RAID1: can't remove (or set-faulty) a disk during resync with mdadm

2006-05-02 Thread Gil
n basically the last one on a CentOS 4.3 box not more than a week ago and it was fine. --Gil - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: md: Change ENOTSUPP to EOPNOTSUPP

2006-05-01 Thread Gil
ctive output of mdadm. FWIW I'm running mdadm 1.11 with 0.90.03 superblocks (e.g. stock Fedora Core 4). Any ideas? TIA, --Gil Ric Wheeler wrote: > > > Molle Bestefich wrote: > >> Ric Wheeler wrote: >> >>> You are absolutely right - if you do not have a valida

Re: Problems with invalid superblock

2006-02-17 Thread Gil
devices=2 > /dev/sda2 /dev/sda3 > master:~# mdadm -E /dev/md0 > mdadm: No md superblock detected on /dev/md0. Try mdadm -E /dev/sda2 or mdadm -E /dev/sda3. --Gil - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: How do I find endian-conversion function on Redhar/Fedora

2006-02-05 Thread Gil
rning.. I have an FC4 machine that I tried this out on. I have no idea if this is the right way to use these headers in /usr/include/linux, but it made the compile problem go away at least. --Gil diff -r -u mdadm-2.3/bitmap.c mdadm-2.3-patched/bitmap.c --- mdadm-2.3/bitmap.c 2005-12-15 17:41:31.000

Re: comparing FreeBSD to linux

2005-11-21 Thread Gil
ci and kernel .config? And have you turned on DMA? hdparm /dev/hda --Gil - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: Setup a Raid while OS is running

2005-08-04 Thread Gil
sfied that your new copy of the OS works properly, repartition your old disk (or change the partition types if you made the partitions on your new disk the same size). Use mdadm to add these partitions to the md devices you created in 3. md will now resync onto your original disk. --Gil Stefan Ma

Re: [PATCH 1/2] md bitmap bug fixes

2005-03-21 Thread Gil
rder to know which blocks could possibly have changed while the array was split since both sides were changing independently. As you note, this mechanism just a more efficient way to do things than copying every block. --Gil - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html