Re: 2.6.15-mm3 hangs during boot (raid related?)

2006-01-11 Thread Neil Brown
On Thursday January 12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 2.6.15-mm3 hangs during boot for me, after the lines > > > md4: bitmap initialized from disk: read 15/15 pages, set 51 bits, status: 0 > created bitmap (224 pages) for device md4 > > > ctrl-alt-del to reboot works sometimes (

Re: Updating superblock to reflect new disc locations

2006-01-11 Thread Michael Alger
Many thanks to you both - I should have thought to check the initrd. I rebuilt it (mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.img- for Debian) and that worked, then after I saw Dean's email I let dpkg-reconfigure rebuild the initrd, to be sure it would work after the next kernel upgrade. All peachy. Thanks ag

Re: Updating superblock to reflect new disc locations

2006-01-11 Thread dean gaudet
On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Neil Brown wrote: > On Wednesday January 11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. The system's new and not > > yet in production, so I can reinstall it if I have to, but I'd prefer to > > be able to fix something as simple as t

Re: where is the spare drive? :-)

2006-01-11 Thread Neil Brown
On Monday January 2, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 5. The question > > Why shows sdh2 as spare? > The MD array size is correct. > And i really can see, the all drive is reading, and sdh2 is *ONLY* writing. > man mdadm Towards the end of the CREATE MODE section: When creating a RAID5 ar

Re: Updating superblock to reflect new disc locations

2006-01-11 Thread Neil Brown
On Wednesday January 11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. The system's new and not > yet in production, so I can reinstall it if I have to, but I'd prefer to > be able to fix something as simple as this. Debian's installer - the mkinitrd part in part

Re: your mail

2006-01-11 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 09:47:03AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Has anyone put an effort into building a raid 1 based on USB connected > drives under Redhat 3/4 not as the root/boot > drive. No, I haven't actually tried this, but I do know that it'll work without any problem. The main issue

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2006-01-11 Thread bhess
linux-raid@vger.kernel.org I originally sent this to Neil Brown who suggested I sent it to you. Any help would be appreciated. Has anyone put an effort into building a raid 1 based on USB connected drives under Redhat 3/4 not as the root/boot drive. A year ago I don't think this

Re: mdadm-2.2 SEGFAULT: mdadm --assemble --scan

2006-01-11 Thread Andreas Haumer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! Bill Davidsen schrieb: > Andreas Haumer wrote: > - >> Index: mdadm/Assemble.c === RCS file: /home/cvs/reposi

Re: 2.6.15-rc5-mm3 sata_mv raid5 array failure to start

2006-01-11 Thread Matt Darcy
Neil Brown wrote: On Sunday January 1, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I am still persisting with my quest for a usable sata_mv driver. The 2.5.15-rc5-m3 kernel appear to have been good to me. Before I attempt moving to later releases of the 2.6.15 tree I thought I'd get feedback fro

Re: 2.6.15-mm3 sata_mv / raid 5 array start failure on boot

2006-01-11 Thread Matt Darcy
Neil Brown wrote: On Tuesday January 3, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I re-created the array - and took a dump of the raid config ARRAY /dev/md6 level=raid5 num-devices=6 spares=1 UUID=f92fa512:1fe54278:d3ba820f:cecb842a You'll need a 'DEVICES' line in the mdadm.conf for it to work. Nei