Re: md device naming question

2007-09-24 Thread Nix
On 19 Sep 2007, maximilian attems said: hello, working on initramfs i'd be curious to know what the /sys/block entry of a /dev/md/NN device is. have a user request to support it and no handy box using it. i presume it may also be /sys/block/mdNN ? That's it, e.g. /sys/block/md0. Notable

Re: Speaking of network disks (was: Re: syncing remote homes.)

2007-09-24 Thread Bill Davidsen
Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote: Hello Bill all , Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat, 22 Sep 2007 09:41:40 -0400 , wrote: My only advice is to try and quantify the data volume and look at nbd vs. iSCSI to provide the mirror if you go that way. You mentioned nbd as a transport for

[GIT PULL] async-tx/md-accel fixes and documentation for 2.6.23

2007-09-24 Thread Dan Williams
Linus, please pull from: git://lost.foo-projects.org/~dwillia2/git/iop async-tx-fixes-for-linus to receive: Dan Williams (3): async_tx: usage documentation and developer notes (v2) async_tx: fix dma_wait_for_async_tx raid5: fix 2 bugs in ops_complete_biofill The raid5

Re[2]: raid5 - which disk failed ?

2007-09-24 Thread Rainer Fuegenstein
NB Or maybe the drive is failing, but that is badly confusing the NB controller, with the same result. NB Is it always hde that is reporting errors? for now - yes; but a few months ago for a short period of time hdg and hdh also have been reported with errors, but this went away quickly and

Re: md device naming question

2007-09-24 Thread Michal Soltys
Nix wrote: On 19 Sep 2007, maximilian attems said: i presume it may also be /sys/block/mdNN ? That's it, e.g. /sys/block/md0. Notable subdirectories include holders/ (block devices within the array, more than one if e.g. LVM is in use), Also, if you mount the raid as a partitionable one,