Re: Software raid0 will crash the file-system, when each disk is 5TB

2007-05-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Zheng Sent: Thursday, 17 May 2007 5:39 p.m. To: Neil Brown; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Michal Piotrowski; Ingo Molnar; linux-raid@vger.kernel.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Software raid0 will crash the file-system, when each disk is 5TB Yeah

RE: Software raid0 will crash the file-system, when each disk is 5TB

2007-05-17 Thread Neil Brown
On Friday May 18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Fix confirmed, filled the whole 11T hard disk, without crashing. > I presume this would go into 2.6.22 Yes, and probably 2.6.21.y, though the patch will be slightly different, see below. > > Thanks again. And thank-you for pursuing this with me. Nei

RE: Software raid0 will crash the file-system, when each disk is 5TB

2007-05-17 Thread Jeff Zheng
l Brown; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Michal Piotrowski; Ingo > Molnar; linux-raid@vger.kernel.org; > [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Software raid0 will crash the file-system, when > each disk is 5TB > > > Yeah, seems you've locked it down, :D. I've writt

RE: Software raid0 will crash the file-system, when each disk is 5TB

2007-05-16 Thread Jeff Zheng
IL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 17 May 2007 5:31 p.m. > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Jeff Zheng; Michal Piotrowski; Ingo > Molnar; linux-raid@vger.kernel.org; > [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Software raid0 will crash the file-system, when > each disk is 5TB > >

RE: Software raid0 will crash the file-system, when each disk is 5TB

2007-05-16 Thread Neil Brown
On Thursday May 17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Uhm, I just noticed something. > 'chunk' is unsigned long, and when it gets shifted up, we might lose > bits. That could still happen with the 4*2.75T arrangement, but is > much more likely in the 2*5.5T arrangement. Actually, it cannot be a probl

RE: Software raid0 will crash the file-system, when each disk is 5TB

2007-05-16 Thread Jeff Zheng
> What is the nature of the corruption? Is it data in a file > that is wrong when you read it back, or does the filesystem > metadata get corrupted? The corruption is in fs metadata, jfs is completely destroied, after Umount, fsck does not recogonize it as jfs anymore. Xfs gives kernel Crash,

RE: Software raid0 will crash the file-system, when each disk is 5TB

2007-05-16 Thread Neil Brown
On Wednesday May 16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 17 May 2007, Neil Brown wrote: > > > On Thursday May 17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > >>> The only difference of any significance between the working > >>> and non-working configurations is that in the non-working, > >>> the component devi

RE: Software raid0 will crash the file-system, when each disk is 5TB

2007-05-16 Thread david
On Thu, 17 May 2007, Neil Brown wrote: On Thursday May 17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only difference of any significance between the working and non-working configurations is that in the non-working, the component devices are larger than 2Gig, and hence have sector offsets greater than 32

RE: Software raid0 will crash the file-system, when each disk is 5TB

2007-05-16 Thread Neil Brown
On Thursday May 17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I tried the patch, same problem show up, but no bug_on report > > Is there any other things I can do? > What is the nature of the corruption? Is it data in a file that is wrong when you read it back, or does the filesystem metadata get corrupted?

RE: Software raid0 will crash the file-system, when each disk is 5TB

2007-05-16 Thread Jeff Zheng
I tried the patch, same problem show up, but no bug_on report Is there any other things I can do? Jeff > Yes, I meant 2T, and yes, the components are always over 2T. > So I'm at a complete loss. The raid0 code follows the same > paths and does the same things and uses 64bit arithmetic wher

RE: Software raid0 will crash the file-system, when each disk is 5TB

2007-05-16 Thread Neil Brown
On Thursday May 17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > The only difference of any significance between the working > > and non-working configurations is that in the non-working, > > the component devices are larger than 2Gig, and hence have > > sector offsets greater than 32 bits. > > Do u mean 2T

RE: Software raid0 will crash the file-system, when each disk is 5TB

2007-05-16 Thread Jeff Zheng
> The only difference of any significance between the working > and non-working configurations is that in the non-working, > the component devices are larger than 2Gig, and hence have > sector offsets greater than 32 bits. Do u mean 2T here?, but in both configuartion, the component devices ar

RE: Software raid0 will crash the file-system, when each disk is 5TB

2007-05-16 Thread Neil Brown
On Wednesday May 16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Here is the information of the created raid0. Hope it is enough. Thanks. Everything looks fine here. The only difference of any significance between the working and non-working configurations is that in the non-working, the component devices are lar

Re: Software raid0 will crash the file-system, when each disk is 5TB

2007-05-16 Thread david
On Wed, 16 May 2007, Bill Davidsen wrote: Jeff Zheng wrote: Here is the information of the created raid0. Hope it is enough. If I read this correctly, the problem is with JFS rather than RAID? he had the same problem with xfs. David Lang - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "u

Re: Software raid0 will crash the file-system, when each disk is 5TB

2007-05-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
ROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Software raid0 will crash the file-system, when each disk is 5TB On Wednesday May 16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody have a clue? No... When a raid0 array is assemble, quite a lot of message get printed about number of zones and hash_spac

RE: Software raid0 will crash the file-system, when each disk is 5TB

2007-05-15 Thread Jeff Zheng
May 2007 12:04 p.m. To: Michal Piotrowski Cc: Jeff Zheng; Ingo Molnar; linux-raid@vger.kernel.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Software raid0 will crash the file-system, when each disk is 5TB On Wednesday May 16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Anybody have a

Re: Software raid0 will crash the file-system, when each disk is 5TB

2007-05-15 Thread Neil Brown
On Wednesday May 16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Anybody have a clue? > > No... When a raid0 array is assemble, quite a lot of message get printed about number of zones and hash_spacing etc. Can you collect and post those. Both for the failing case (2*5.5T) and the working case (4*2.55T) is

Re: Software raid0 will crash the file-system, when each disk is 5TB

2007-05-15 Thread Michal Piotrowski
[Ingo, Neil, linux-raid added to CC] On 16/05/07, Jeff Zheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi everyone: We are experiencing problems with software raid0, with very large disk arrays. We are using two 3ware disk array controllers, each of them is connected 8 750GB harddrives. And we build a