Robust Read (was: [PATCH 1/2] md bitmap bug fixes)

2005-03-19 Thread Michael Tokarev
Peter T. Breuer wrote: [] The patch was originally developed for 2.4, then ported to 2.6.3, and then to 2.6.8.1. Neil has recently been doing stuff, so I don't think it applies cleanly to 2.6.10, but somebody WAS porting it for me until they found that 2.6.10 didn't support their hardware ... and

Re: Robust Read

2005-03-19 Thread Peter T. Breuer
Michael Tokarev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [-- text/plain, encoding 7bit, charset: KOI8-R, 74 lines --] Peter T. Breuer wrote: [] The patch was originally developed for 2.4, then ported to 2.6.3, and then to 2.6.8.1. Neil has recently been doing stuff, so I don't think it applies cleanly

Re: Robust Read

2005-03-19 Thread Michael Tokarev
Peter T. Breuer wrote: Michael Tokarev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [-- text/plain, encoding 7bit, charset: KOI8-R, 74 lines --] Uh-oh. Setting proper charset this time. What a nonsense: 7bit but koi8... ;) [] Uh OK. As I recall one only needs to count, one doesn't need a bitwise map of what one has

Re: Robust Read

2005-03-19 Thread Peter T. Breuer
Michael Tokarev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Uh OK. As I recall one only needs to count, one doesn't need a bitwise map of what one has dealt with. Well. I see read_balance() is now used to resubmit reads. There's a reason to use it instead of choosing next disk, I think. I can't think of

Re: Robust Read

2005-03-19 Thread Michael Tokarev
Peter T. Breuer wrote: Michael Tokarev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [] But your approach is fine - it's just that (a) I don't like to mess with the struct sizes, as that makes modules binary incompatible, instead of just having extra functionalities, and (b) I really think it's not going to be easily

RAID1 robust read and read/write correct patch

2005-02-23 Thread J. David Beutel
I'd like to try this patch http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-raidm=110704868115609w=2 with EVMS BBR. Has anyone tried it on 2.6.10 (with FC2 1.9 and EVMS patches)? Has anyone tried the rewrite part at all? I don't know md or the kernel or this patch, but the following lines of the patch

Re: RAID1 robust read and read/write correct patch

2005-02-23 Thread Peter T. Breuer
J. David Beutel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to try this patch http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-raidm=110704868115609w=2 with EVMS BBR. Has anyone tried it on 2.6.10 (with FC2 1.9 and EVMS patches)? Has anyone tried the rewrite part at all? I don't know md or the kernel or

RAID1 robust read and read/write correct and EVMS-BBR

2005-02-23 Thread Nagpure, Dinesh
Hi, I noticed the discussion about robust read on the RAID list and similar one on the EVMS list so I am sending this mail to both the lists. Latent media faults which prevent data from being read from portions of a disk has always been a concern for us. Such faults will go undetected till

Re: RAID1 robust read and read/write correct and EVMS-BBR

2005-02-23 Thread J. David Beutel
Nagpure, Dinesh wrote, on 2005-Feb-23 9:55 AM: I can go back and put together a patch over the weekend if anyone is interested in using it. Yes, please, I'm very interested in using it. Cheers, 11011011 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-raid in the body of a

Re: RAID1 robust read and read/write correct patch

2005-02-23 Thread J. David Beutel
Peter T. Breuer wrote, on 2005-Feb-23 1:50 AM: Quite possibly - I never tested the rewrite part of the patch, just wrote it to indicate how it should go and stuck it in to encourage others to go on from there. It's disabled by default. You almost certainly don't want to enable it unless you are

RE: RAID1 robust read and read/write correct and EVMS-BBR

2005-02-23 Thread Guy
: 'linux-raid@vger.kernel.org' Subject: RAID1 robust read and read/write correct and EVMS-BBR Hi, I noticed the discussion about robust read on the RAID list and similar one on the EVMS list so I am sending this mail to both the lists. Latent media faults which prevent data from being read from portions

Re: RAID1 robust read and read/write correct patch

2005-02-23 Thread Peter T. Breuer
J. David Beutel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter T. Breuer wrote, on 2005-Feb-23 1:50 AM: Quite possibly - I never tested the rewrite part of the patch, just wrote it to indicate how it should go and stuck it in to encourage others to go on from there. It's disabled by default. You almost

Re: RAID1 robust read and read/write correct and EVMS-BBR

2005-02-23 Thread bernd
I can go back and put together a patch over the weekend if anyone is interested in using it. -dinesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Oh yes, please make this patch. We are very very interested in it! We are waiting for the one day where the same block on all mirrors has read problems. Ok, we're now

Re: Robust read patch for raid1

2005-02-01 Thread Peter T. Breuer
to the top level, but didn't fault the disk because I'd trapped for that. That's how I first learned I had to change the raid1_map function! --- linux-2.4.24-uml/raid1.c.post-fr1-2.14b,post-read-balance,pre-robust-read Tue Aug 31 20:22:49 2004 +++ linux-2.4.24-uml/raid1.cSun Jan 30 00:29:58

Robust read patch for raid1

2005-01-29 Thread Peter T. Breuer
I've had the opportunity to test the robust read patch that I posted earier in the month (10 Jan, Subject: Re: Spares and partitioning huge disks), and it needs one more change ... I assumed that the raid1 map function would move a (retried) request to another disk, but it des not, it always moves