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

2007-05-17 Thread Jeff Zheng
Fix confirmed, filled the whole 11T hard disk, without crashing. I presume this would go into 2.6.22 Thanks again. Jeff > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Zheng > Sent: Thursday, 17 May 2007 5:39 p.m. > To: Nei

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; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Software raid0 will crash the file-system, when > each disk is 5TB &g

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 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 Jeff Zheng
, Distro is Fedora core, we've tried fc4 and fc6. > Can you try with this patch? It is the only thing that I can > find that could conceivably go wrong. > OK, I will try the patach and post the result. Best Regards Jeff Zheng - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "

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

2007-05-16 Thread Jeff Zheng
: Jeff Zheng; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Software raid0 will crash the file-system, when each disk is 5TB my experiance is taht if you don't have CONFIG_LBD enabled then the kernel will report the larger disk as 2G and everything will work, you just won'

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

2007-05-16 Thread Jeff Zheng
Problem is that is only happens when you actually write data to the raid. You need the actual space to reproduce the problem. Jeff -Original Message- From: Jan Engelhardt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 17 May 2007 6:17 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Andreas Dilger; Jeff

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; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; [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

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

2007-05-15 Thread Jeff Zheng
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 software raid0 on top of that. The total capacity is 5.5TB+5.5TB=11TB We use jfs as the f