On Saturday August 12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Doing this on a raid1 array:
>         echo "check" >/sys/block/md0/md/sync_action
> 
> On 2.6.16.27:
>         Activity lights on both mirrors show activity for a while,
>         then the array status prints on the console.
> 
> On 2.6.18-rc4 + the below patch:
>         Drive activity light blinks once on one drive, then the
>         array status prints (obviously no checking takes place.)
> 

Thanks for the report.
Easily duplicated, easily fixed.
I'll make sure this patch gets into 2.6.18.

Thanks again,
NeilBrown

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

diff .prev/drivers/md/raid1.c ./drivers/md/raid1.c
--- .prev/drivers/md/raid1.c    2006-07-31 17:24:36.000000000 +1000
+++ ./drivers/md/raid1.c        2006-08-14 15:52:48.000000000 +1000
@@ -1644,15 +1644,16 @@ static sector_t sync_request(mddev_t *md
                return 0;
        }
 
-       /* before building a request, check if we can skip these blocks..
-        * This call the bitmap_start_sync doesn't actually record anything
-        */
        if (mddev->bitmap == NULL &&
            mddev->recovery_cp == MaxSector &&
+           !test_bit(MD_RECOVERY_REQUESTED, &mddev->recovery) &&
            conf->fullsync == 0) {
                *skipped = 1;
                return max_sector - sector_nr;
        }
+       /* before building a request, check if we can skip these blocks..
+        * This call the bitmap_start_sync doesn't actually record anything
+        */
        if (!bitmap_start_sync(mddev->bitmap, sector_nr, &sync_blocks, 1) &&
            !conf->fullsync && !test_bit(MD_RECOVERY_REQUESTED, 
&mddev->recovery)) {
                /* We can skip this block, and probably several more */

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