Re: [RFC][PATCH 001 of 3] MD Acceleration: Base ADMA interface

2006-02-04 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
Hello, Dan. On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 04:58:02PM -0700, Dan Williams ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Thanks for the feedback, I will implement these changes. Also, now that you have given me some hints as to the acrypto vocabulary, I can start looking into integration and cross pollenation efforts.

Re: Raid5 Debian Yaird Woes

2006-02-04 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This thread is all very relevant. But please cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] rather than me privately. Regards, - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær:

Re: raid 4, and bitmap.

2006-02-04 Thread JaniD++
Ahh, i almost forget! The mdadm is sometimes drop cannot allocate memory and next try segfault when i try -G --bitmap=internal on 2TB arrays! And after segfault, the full raid is stops... Cheers, Janos I think i found the bug, its me. :-) Today it happens again, and i see, i have

Re: Raid 4 resize, raid0 limit question

2006-02-04 Thread JaniD++
--cut-- I plan to resize (grow) one raid4 array. 1. stop the array. 2. resize the partition on all disks to fit the maximum size. The approach is currently not supported. It would need a change to mdadm to find the old superblock and relocate it to the new end of the

Re: Raid5 Debian Yaird Woes

2006-02-04 Thread Lewis Shobbrook
On Saturday 04 February 2006 11:22 am, you wrote: On Sat, 4 Feb 2006, Lewis Shobbrook wrote: Is there any way to avoid this requirement for input, so that the system skips the missing drive as the raid/initrd system did previously? what boot errors are you getting before it drops you to the

Re: Newbie questions: Max Active disks, RAID migration, Compiling mdadm 2.3

2006-02-04 Thread Mike Hardy
If you remove the '-Werror' it'll compile and work, but you still can't convert a raid 0 to a raid 5. You're raid level understanding is off as well, raid 5 is a parity block rotating around all drives, you were thinking of raid 4 which has a single parity disk. Migrating raid 0 to raid 4 (and