Re: where is the spare drive? :-)

2006-01-12 Thread JaniD++
- Original Message - From: Neil Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: JaniD++ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 4:07 AM Subject: Re: where is the spare drive? :-) On Monday January 2, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 5. The question Why shows sdh2

Re: [git patch] 2.6.x libata fix

2006-01-12 Thread Matt Darcy
Matt Darcy wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: Please pull from 'upstream-linus' branch of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev.git to receive the following updates: drivers/scsi/sata_nv.c | 30 -- 1 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 6

Re: [git patch] 2.6.x libata fix

2006-01-12 Thread PFC
Hello, I've had a lot of problems with nv_sata (nforce3) and Maxtor harddrives. Basically it always boils down to : Dec 24 23:04:34 apollo13 ata3: command 0x35 timeout, stat 0xd0 host_stat 0x21 Dec 24 23:04:34 apollo13 ata3: translated ATA stat/err 0x35/00 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ

Re:

2006-01-12 Thread David Greaves
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip - a lot!! can I summarise (!) as: I want to create a non-system data-storage raid array (ie can be initialised well after boot) I want to use a mix of SCSI, sata + USB devices Will this work if the USB devices change their 'order' Short answer: yes, with the

Re: [git patch] 2.6.x libata fix

2006-01-12 Thread Matt Darcy
I can now provide further updates for this, although this are not really super useful. I've copied the linux-raid list in as well, as after a little more testing on my part I'd appriciate some input from the raid guys also. First of all, please ignore the comments above, there was a

Mdadm -- how to add another device in a linear mode?

2006-01-12 Thread m l
Hi all, 1- I would like to create a linear raid level with one device. (or with raid0) 2- I would like to add another device to the first one. Anyone knows how ? Martin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-raid in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: proactive raid5 related bug

2006-01-12 Thread Filipe Maia
Also if i do something like: # grow bad blocks as ma*tor does :) mdadm --grow -l faulty -p rp454 /dev/md2 mdadm --grow -l faulty -p rp738 /dev/md3 # add a spare mdadm -a /dev/md5 /dev/ram5 mdadm -f /dev/md5 /dev/md2 mdadm -f /dev/md5 /dev/md2 After the initial reconstruction i get this:

Re:

2006-01-12 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 11:16:36AM +, David Greaves wrote: ok, first off: a 14 device raid1 is 14 times more likely to lose *all* your data than a single device. No, this is completely incorrect. Let A denote the event that a single disk has failed, A_i denote the event that i disks have

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

2006-01-12 Thread Jens Axboe
On Thu, Jan 12 2006, Jurriaan on adsl-gate wrote: From: Neil Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 05:36:42PM +1100 Sent-To: On Thursday January 12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2.6.15-mm3 hangs during boot for me, after the lines md4: bitmap initialized

built in readahead? - chunk size question

2006-01-12 Thread JaniD++
Hello, list, I have found one interesting issue. I use 4 disk node with NBD, and the concentrator distributes the load equal thanks to 32KB chunksize RAID0 inside. At this time i am working on the system upgrade, and found one interesting issue, and possibly one bottleneck on the system. The