Re: SR RAID5 rebuild/stability issue.

2015-09-23 Thread Joel Sing
On Tuesday 22 September 2015 09:58:57 Karel Gardas wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 3:20 AM, Chris Cappuccio wrote: > > Karel Gardas [gard...@gmail.com] wrote: > >> Let me ask, should SR RAID5 survive such testing or is for example > >> rebuilding with off-lined drive considered

Re: SR RAID5 rebuild/stability issue.

2015-09-23 Thread Joel Sing
On Monday 21 September 2015 23:02:39 Karel Gardas wrote: > Hello, > > due to work on SR RAID1 check summing support where I've touched SR > RAID internals (workunit scheduling) I'd like to test SR RAID5/6 > functionality on snapshot and on my tree to see that I've not broken > the stuff while

Re: SR RAID5 rebuild/stability issue.

2015-09-23 Thread Karel Gardas
On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 5:27 PM, Joel Sing wrote: > RAID5 should work (ignore RAID6 - it is still incomplete) and rebuilding > should be functional: > > http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article=20150413071009 > > When I reenabled RAID5, I had tested it reasonably as I could, but

Re: SR RAID5 rebuild/stability issue.

2015-09-22 Thread Karel Gardas
On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 3:20 AM, Chris Cappuccio wrote: > Karel Gardas [gard...@gmail.com] wrote: >> >> Let me ask, should SR RAID5 survive such testing or is for example >> rebuilding with off-lined drive considered unsupported feature? >> > > It's new, considered experimental

Re: SR RAID5 rebuild/stability issue.

2015-09-21 Thread Chris Cappuccio
Karel Gardas [gard...@gmail.com] wrote: > > Let me ask, should SR RAID5 survive such testing or is for example > rebuilding with off-lined drive considered unsupported feature? > It's new, considered experimental and not well tested. In my initial testing with RAID5, it was so slow as to be

SR RAID5 rebuild/stability issue.

2015-09-21 Thread Karel Gardas
Hello, due to work on SR RAID1 check summing support where I've touched SR RAID internals (workunit scheduling) I'd like to test SR RAID5/6 functionality on snapshot and on my tree to see that I've not broken the stuff while hacking it. My current problem is that I'm not able to come with some