Re: [bug?] raid1 integrity checking is broken on 2.6.18-rc4

2006-08-17 Thread Chuck Ebbert
In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 16:14:06 +1000, Neil Brown wrote: > > On 2.6.18-rc4 + the below patch: > > Drive activity light blinks once on one drive, then the > > array status prints (obviously no checking takes place.) > > > > Thanks for the report. > E

Re: [patch] raid1: allow user to force reads from a specific disk

2006-08-17 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > Allow user to force raid1 to read all data from a given disk. > This lets users do integrity checking by comparing results > from reading different disks. If at any time the system finds > it cannot read from the given disk it resets the disk number > to -1, the default, which means to bala

Re: raid5 grow problem

2006-08-17 Thread 舒星
I've only tried growing a RAID5, which was the only RAID that I remember being supported (to grow) in the kernel, I am not sure if its posible to i know this,but how you grow your raid5,what's your mdadm version? need anyother configure before creat md & use mdadm -G ..to grow? grow other types

Re: remark and RFC

2006-08-17 Thread Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) I would like raid request retries to be done with exponential >delays, so that we get a chance to overcome network brownouts. Hmmm, IMHO this should be implemented in nbd/enbd where it belongs to and errors should be masked within nbd/enbd then.

Re: raid5 grow problem

2006-08-17 Thread Justin Piszcz
I've only tried growing a RAID5, which was the only RAID that I remember being supported (to grow) in the kernel, I am not sure if its posible to grow other types of RAID arrays. On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, ÊæÐÇ wrote: dear sir: i try to make a reshape command with mdadm (version 2.5.2).in l

Re: spurious dots in dmesg when reconstructing arrays

2006-08-17 Thread Michael Tokarev
Neil Brown wrote: > On Thursday August 17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> A long time ago I noticied pretty bad formatting of >> dmesg text in md array reconstruction output, but >> never bothered to ask. So here it goes. > > What kernel version? > My patch logs suggest that I fixed that about 1 yea

Re: spurious dots in dmesg when reconstructing arrays

2006-08-17 Thread Neil Brown
On Thursday August 17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A long time ago I noticied pretty bad formatting of > dmesg text in md array reconstruction output, but > never bothered to ask. So here it goes. What kernel version? My patch logs suggest that I fixed that about 1 year ago... which means it is st

spurious dots in dmesg when reconstructing arrays

2006-08-17 Thread Michael Tokarev
A long time ago I noticied pretty bad formatting of dmesg text in md array reconstruction output, but never bothered to ask. So here it goes. Example dmesg ("RAID conf printout" sections omitted): md: bind RAID1 conf printout: ..<6>md: syncing RAID array md1 md: minimum _guaranteed_ reco

Re: raid5 grow problem

2006-08-17 Thread 舒星
dear sir: i try to make a reshape command with mdadm (version 2.5.2).in linux shell ,i make $:mdadm -G /dev/md5 /dev/sdd2 /dev/md5 is a raid5 device with 4 disks,/dev/sdd2 is a partition it give the prompt :mdadm :can only add devices to linear arrays,but i have read the resourse code of

Re: raid5 grow problem

2006-08-17 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, ÊæÐÇ wrote: hello all: i installed adadm 2.5.2,and compiled the 2.6.17.6 kernel .when i cmd to grom a raid5 array ,it don't work.how to do can make raid5 grow.thks for your help. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of