Re: [PATCH 000 of 006] raid5: Offload RAID operations to a workqueue

2006-06-29 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 11:23 -0700, Dan Williams wrote: This patch set is a step towards enabling hardware offload in the md-raid5 driver. These patches are considered experimental and are not yet suitable for production environments. As mentioned, this patch set is the first step in that it

RAID resync after every boot?

2006-06-29 Thread Christian Pernegger
Yesterday evening I initialized a new RAID5, waited for completion and shut down the machine. Yet when I restarted it this morning it immediately began with a resync -- it seems that it wants to resync on every boot ... This is a new Debian testing installation, array was created with EVMS and

Re: Cutting power without breaking RAID

2006-06-29 Thread Niccolo Rigacci
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 06:03:01PM -0700, Tim wrote: Your UPS won't accept a timer value to wait before actually cutting power? Unfortunately my UPS des not! -- Niccolo Rigacci Firenze - Italy Iraq, missione di pace: 38725 morti - www.iraqbodycount.net - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: Cutting power without breaking RAID

2006-06-29 Thread Niccolo Rigacci
On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 02:00:09PM +1000, Neil Brown wrote: With 2.6, killall -9 md0_raid1 should do the trick (assuming root is on /dev/md0. If it is elsewhere, choose a different process name). Thanks, this is what I was looking for! I will try remounting read-only and killing the

Re: RAID resync after every boot?

2006-06-29 Thread Christian Pernegger
[...] it seems that it wants to resync on every boot ... Update: - During shutdown I got a few errors on the console regarding arrays that couldn't be stopped, because the mdadm package in Debian tries to shut down all arrays, even if it is set not to autostart any -- will file bug. - The

Re: I need a PCI V2.1 4 port SATA card

2006-06-29 Thread Bill Davidsen
Gordon Henderson wrote: On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Christian Pernegger wrote: I also subscribe to the almost commodity hardware philosophy, however I've not been able to find a case that comfortably takes even 8 drives. (The Stacker is an absolute nightmare ...) Even most rackable cases stop at

Re: Cutting power without breaking RAID

2006-06-29 Thread Bill Davidsen
Niccolo Rigacci wrote: On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 02:00:09PM +1000, Neil Brown wrote: With 2.6, killall -9 md0_raid1 should do the trick (assuming root is on /dev/md0. If it is elsewhere, choose a different process name). Thanks, this is what I was looking for! I will try

Re: [PATCH 000 of 006] raid5: Offload RAID operations to a workqueue

2006-06-29 Thread Dan Williams
Hi, since using work queues involve more context switches than doing things inline... have you measured the performance impact of your changes? If so... was there any impact that you could measure, and how big was that? Greetings, Arjan van de Ven Good point. Especially on ARM

Re: [PATCH 004 of 006] raid5: Move read completion copies to a work queue

2006-06-29 Thread Dan Williams
Minor refresh to make 'biofill' go through a test_and_clear_bit check before performing the copy. Which is important for the hardware offload implementation where operations might need to be retried until DMA resources are available. - This patch moves the data copying portion of

Re: [PATCH 005 of 006] raid5: Move expansion operations to a work queue

2006-06-29 Thread Dan Williams
Refresh to apply on top the new version of [PATCH 004 of 006]. --- This patch modifies handle_write_operations5() to handle the parity calculation request made by the reshape code. However this patch does not move the copy operation associated with an expand to the work queue. First, it

Re: Cutting power without breaking RAID

2006-06-29 Thread alexwang.com (sent by Nabble.com)
Looks impossible UPS design to me. May I ask what UPS do you use? My APC smart UPS does has a timer, so PC can send command shut the UPS down after 30 seconds and then shutdown itself. -- View this message in context:

Re: Cutting power without breaking RAID

2006-06-29 Thread Neil Brown
On Thursday June 29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why should this trickery be needed? When an array is mounted r/o it should be clean. How can it be dirty. I assume readonly implies noatime, I mount physically readonly devices without explicitly saying noatime and nothing whines. The