On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 10:36:30PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Nov 13, 2007 8:43 PM, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > Careful, it looks like you cherry picked commit 4ae3f847 "md: raid5:
> > > fix clearing of biofill operations"
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 08:36:05PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Nov 13, 2007 5:23 PM, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 04:22:14PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 05:15:27PM +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
> > > >
>
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 04:22:14PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 05:15:27PM +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
> >
> > It appears that a couple of bugs slipped in to md for 2.6.23.
> > These two patches fix them and are appropriate for 2.6.23.y as well
> > as
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 05:15:27PM +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
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> It appears that a couple of bugs slipped in to md for 2.6.23.
> These two patches fix them and are appropriate for 2.6.23.y as well
> as 2.6.24-rcX
>
> Thanks,
> NeilBrown
>
> [PATCH 001 of 2] md: Fix an unsigned compare to allow cr
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
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From: Mike Accetta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
If raid1/repair (which reads all block and fixes any differences
it finds) hits a read error, it doesn't reset the bio for writing
before writing correct data back,
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
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1/ When resyncing a degraded raid10 which has more than 2 copies of each block,
garbage can get synced on top of good data.
2/ We round the wrong way in part of the device size calculation, which
can
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From: Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
If 'num_pages' were ever 1 more than a multiple of 8 (32bit platforms)
for of 16 (64 bit platforms). filemap_attr would be allocated one
'unsigned long' shorter than re
From: Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
md/bitmap tracks how many active write requests are pending on blocks
associated with each bit in the bitmap, so that it knows when it can
clear the bit (when count hits zero).
The counter has 14 bits of space, so if there are ever more than 16383,
we cannot c
From: NeilBrown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
There are two errors that can lead to recovery problems with raid10
when used in 'far' more (not the default).
Due to a '>' instead of '>=' the wrong block is located which would
result in garbage being written to some random location, quite
possible outside th
On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 12:29:51PM -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote:
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> On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote:
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> >
> > >
> > > Good luck,
> > > Jurriaan
> > > --
> > > > What does ELF stand for (in respect to Linux?)
> > > ELF is the first rock group that Ronnie James Dio performed wit
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 05:00:40PM +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
> Following are 6 patches for md in -lastest which I have been sitting
> on for a while because I hadn't had a chance to test them properly.
> I now have so there shouldn't be too many bugs left :-)
>
> First is suitable for 2.6.19 (if it
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 05:00:46PM +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
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> This allows udev to do something intelligent when an
> array becomes available.
>
> cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
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From: Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
If a drive is added with HOT_ADD_DISK rather than ADD_NEW_DISK,
saved_raid_disk isn't initialised properly, and the drive can be
included in the array without a resync
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 02:24:45PM +0200, Leon Woestenberg wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> On 9/13/06, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Ric Wheeler wrote:
> >> Leon Woestenberg wrote:
> >>> In short, I use ext3 over /dev/md0 over 4 SATA drives /dev/sd[a-d]
> >>> each driven by libata ahci. I unplug
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
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From: NeilBrown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
At the point where this 'atomic_add' is, rdev could be NULL, as seen by
the fact that we test for this in the very next statement.
Further is it is really the wrong pla
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 10:05:26AM +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
> patch for 2.6.17 stable series.
> Thanks,
> NeilBrown
> ### Comments for Changeset
>
> At the point where this 'atomic_add' is, rdev could be NULL,
> as seen by the fact that we test for this in the very next
> statement.
> Further is i
On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 12:50:15PM +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
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> We should add to the counter for the rdev *after* checking
> if the rdev is NULL !!!
>
> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Queued to -stable, thanks.
greg k-h
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On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 07:21:33PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 04:52:08PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > I'm putting the final touches on kinit, which is the user-space
> > replacement (based on klibc) for the whole in-kernel root-mount complex.
>
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 04:52:08PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> I'm putting the final touches on kinit, which is the user-space
> replacement (based on klibc) for the whole in-kernel root-mount complex.
> Pretty much the one thing remaining -- other than lots of testing --
> is to handle aut
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 09:15:55PM +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
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> The current sync_action for an array can be one of
>
>idle - nothing happening
>resync - reduncancy being recalcualted
>recover - missing device being recoverred to spare
>check - user initiated check of redundancy
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 09:15:10PM +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
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> 1/ I really should be using the __ATTR macros for defining attributes, so
> that the .owner field get set properly, otherwise modules can be removed
> while sysfs files are open.
> This also involves some name changes of _show routi
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 09:14:52PM +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
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> If a block_device is a partition, then it's kobject is
> bdev->bd_part->kobj
> otherwise (if it is a full device), the kobject is
> bdev->bd_disk->kobj
>
> As md wants back-links to the correct object (whether partition or
> not)
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 09:16:03PM +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
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> Document in Documentation/md.txt the files that now appear in sysfs,
> and make a couple of small refinements to exactly when 'level' and
> 'raid_disks' are empty, to make it match the documentation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <[EM
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 09:15:16PM +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
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> Some, but not all, md array support data redundancy and hence
> support checking and restoring that redundancy (resync, rebuild).
>
> Some attributes apply specifically to functions involving this
> redundancy, and so should only appe
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