Re: [PATCH 001 of 6] md: Send online/offline uevents when an md array starts/stops.

2006-11-03 Thread Kay Sievers
On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 17:57 +1100, Neil Brown wrote: On Thursday November 2, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 23:32 +1100, Neil Brown wrote: We couldn't think of any use of an offline event. So we removed the event when the device-mapper device is suspended. Should

Re: New features?

2006-11-03 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 02:39:31PM +1100, Neil Brown wrote: mdadm could probably be changed to be able to remove the device anyway. The only difficulty is: how do you tell it which device to remove, given that there is no name in /dev to use. Suggestions? Major:minor? If /sys/block still

Re: RAID5 refuses to accept replacement drive.

2006-11-03 Thread greg
On Oct 26, 7:25am, Neil Brown wrote: } Subject: Re: RAID5 refuses to accept replacement drive. Hi Neil, hope the end of the week is going well for you. On Wednesday October 25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good morning to everyone, hope everyone's day is going well. Neil, I sent this to

Re: RAID5/10 chunk size and ext2/3 stride parameter

2006-11-03 Thread dean gaudet
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, martin f krafft wrote: Hi, I cannot find authoritative information about the relation between the RAID chunk size and the correct stride parameter to use when creating an ext2/3 filesystem. you know, it's interesting -- mkfs.xfs somehow gets the right sunit/swidth