raid1 oops, 2.6.16

2006-08-05 Thread Jason Lunz
I just had a disk die in a 2.6.16 (debian kernel) raid1 server, and it's triggered an oops in raid1. There are a bunch of 2-partition mirrors: Personalities : [raid1] md5 : active raid1 hdc7[2](F) hda7[1] 77625984 blocks [2/1] [_U] md4 : active raid1 hdc6[2](F) hda6[1] 16000640

Re: Grub vs Lilo

2006-07-26 Thread Jason Lunz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Wondering if anyone can comment on an easy way to get grub to update all components in a raid1 array. I have a raid1 /boot with a raid10 /root and have previously used lilo with the raid-extra-boot option to install to boot sectors of all component devices. With grub

Re: [PATCH] enable auto=yes by default when using udev

2006-07-02 Thread Jason Lunz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Maybe I could test if /dev was a mount point? Any other ideas? there's a udevd you can check for. I don't know whether that's a better test or not. Jason - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-raid in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

degraded raid5 refuses to start

2006-07-01 Thread Jason Lunz
I have a 4-disk raid5 (sda3, sdb3, hda1, hdc1). sda and sdb share a silicon image sata card. sdb died completely, then 20 minutes later, the sata_sil driver became fatally confused and the machine locked up. I shut down the machine and waited until I had a replacement for sdb. I've got a

Re: degraded raid5 refuses to start

2006-07-01 Thread Jason Lunz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: How do I get this array going again? Am I doing something wrong? Reading the list archives indicates that there could be bugs in this area, or that I may need to recreate the array with -C (though that seems heavyhanded to me). This is what I ended up doing. I made

Re: 2.6.15: mdrun, udev -- who creates nodes?

2006-01-31 Thread Jason Lunz
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 09:19:16PM +0100, Molle Bestefich wrote: I *think* that the raid developers may be, for once, choosing words not-so-wisely when talking about deprecating autoassembly. You're right, I should be careful not to imply anything Neil didn't actually say. What he said was: