Grow a degraded raid6?

2007-09-07 Thread Andrew Burgess
Any chance of being able to grow a degraded raid6 array? (missing one drive) I tried to add a spare without it immediately grabbing it and resyncing but couldn't. Why? I made the array raid6 because eventually it'll have 8-10 drives. Currently you can't change from raid5 to 6 and preserve your

mdadm 2.6.3 segfaults on assembly (v1 superblocks)

2007-09-07 Thread martin f krafft
Hi, preparing the Debian package for mdadm 2.6.3, I found a segfault in mdadm/Assemble.c:254, in the line: } else if (tst-ss-load_super(tst,dfd, super, NULL)) { the problem is that tst-ss is NULL, due to reasons I have not yet uncovered. The segfault happens only in the second iteration of

Re: raid1 error handling and faulty drives

2007-09-07 Thread Mike Accetta
Neil Brown writes: On Wednesday September 5, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... 2) It adds a threshold on the level of recent error acivity which is acceptable in a given interval, all configured through /sys. If a mirror has generated more errors in this interval than the threshold,