RAID5 refuses to accept replacement drive.

2006-10-25 Thread greg
Good morning to everyone, hope everyone's day is going well. Neil, I sent this to your SUSE address a week ago but it may have gotten trapped in a SPAM filter or lost in the shuffle. I've used MD based RAID since it first existed. First time I've run into a situation like this. Environment:

Re: RAID5 refuses to accept replacement drive.

2006-10-25 Thread Eli Stair
A tangentially-related suggestion: If you layer dm-multipath on top of the raw block (SCSI,FC) layer, you add some complexity but also the good quality of enabling periodic readsector0() checks... so if your spindle powers down unexpectedly but the controller thinks it's still alive, you

mdadm: bitmaps not supported by this kernel?

2006-10-25 Thread Michael Tokarev
Another 32/64 bits issue, it seems. Running 2.6.18.1 x86-64 kernel and mdadm 2.5.3 (32 bit). # mdadm -G /dev/md1 --bitmap=internal mdadm: bitmaps not supported by this kernel. # mdadm -G /dev/md1 --bitmap=none mdadm: bitmaps not supported by this kernel. etc. Recompiling mdadm in 64bit mode

Re: RAID5 refuses to accept replacement drive.

2006-10-25 Thread Neil Brown
On Wednesday October 25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good morning to everyone, hope everyone's day is going well. Neil, I sent this to your SUSE address a week ago but it may have gotten trapped in a SPAM filter or lost in the shuffle. Yes, resending is always a good idea if I seem to be