Bug#624343: data corruption: md changes max_sector setting of running md devices

2013-01-07 Thread bug556610
Hello, thanks for responding. NeilBrown: The upstream bug tracker is mailto:linux-r...@vger.kernel.org Well ok, though a regular mailinglist makes it rather hard to get an overview for non-devs, and reporting involves receiving unrelated messages. This really needs to be fixed by

Bug#624343: data corruption: md changes max_sector setting of running md devices

2013-01-07 Thread NeilBrown
On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 13:34:05 +0100 (CET) bug556...@arcor.de wrote: Hello, thanks for responding. NeilBrown: The upstream bug tracker is mailto:linux-r...@vger.kernel.org Well ok, though a regular mailinglist makes it rather hard to get an overview for non-devs, and reporting

Bug#624343: data corruption: md changes max_sector setting of running md devices

2013-01-06 Thread bug556610
Alan Woodland: If I've understood this correctly one possible workaround for this (for the time being) would be to add a boot parameter that lets you artificially limit max_hw_sectors? In this case it seems forcing all md devices down from 248 to 240 would probably avoid potential data loss

Bug#624343: data corruption: md changes max_sector setting of running md devices

2013-01-06 Thread NeilBrown
On Sun, 6 Jan 2013 12:31:46 +0100 (CET) bug556...@arcor.de wrote: Alan Woodland: If I've understood this correctly one possible workaround for this (for the time being) would be to add a boot parameter that lets you artificially limit max_hw_sectors? In this case it seems forcing all md