Re: [solved] supermicro failure

2006-12-19 Thread Louis-David Mitterrand
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 10:47:29PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Louis-David Mitterrand wrote: > >On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 03:27:31PM +0100, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote: > > > >>I forgot to add that to help us solve this we are ready to hire a paid > >>consultant please contact me by mail or pho

Re: Odd (slow) RAID performance

2006-12-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
Mark Hahn wrote: which is right at the edge of what I need. I want to read the doc on stripe_cache_size before going huge, if that's K 10MB is a LOT of cache when 256 works perfectly in RAID-0. but they are basically unrelated. in r5/6, the stripe cache is absolutely critical in caching par

Re: [solved]

2006-12-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
Louis-David Mitterrand wrote: On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 03:27:31PM +0100, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote: I forgot to add that to help us solve this we are ready to hire a paid consultant please contact me by mail or phone at +33.1.46.47.21.30 Update: we eventually succeded in reassembling

Re: sata badness in 2.6.20-rc1? [Was: Re: md patches in -mm]

2006-12-19 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 15:26:00 -0800 (PST) Luben Tuikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The reason was that my dev tree was tainted by this bug: > > if (good_bytes && > - scsi_end_request(cmd, 1, good_bytes, !!result) == NULL) > + scsi_end_request(cmd, 1, good_bytes, result

Re: sata badness in 2.6.20-rc1? [Was: Re: md patches in -mm]

2006-12-19 Thread Luben Tuikov
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 03:05:39AM -0800 > > On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 12:00:12 +0100 > > "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Okay, I have identified the patch that causes the problem to appear, > > > which

Re: Raid corruption problems.

2006-12-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
John McMonagle wrote: Have a raid1 backup server that seems to get corrupted. This is the 3rd time in about a year. Have 2 other backup servers that were cloned from this one that have no problems. Done a couple kernel upgrades recently. Now has 2.6.18-2 kernel. It's based on Debian sarge. I

Re: RAID1 root and swap and initrd

2006-12-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
Michael Tokarev wrote: Andre Majorel wrote: [] Thanks Jurriaan and Gordon. I think I may still be f*cked, however. The Lilo doc says you can't use raid-extra-boot=mbr-only if boot= does not point to a raid device. Which it doesn't because in my setup, boot=/dev/sda. Using boot=/dev/md5 would