On 4/7/06, Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Friday April 7, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Seeing this hasn't made it into a released kernel yet, I might just
> > change it. But I'll have to make sure that old mdadm's don't mess
> > things up ... I wonder how I will do that :-(
> >
> >
I am pleased to announce the availability of
mdadm version 2.4.1
It is available at the usual places:
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/
and
http://www.{countrycode}.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
mdadm is a tool for creating, managing and monitoring
device arrays u
On Friday April 7, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Seeing this hasn't made it into a released kernel yet, I might just
> change it. But I'll have to make sure that old mdadm's don't mess
> things up ... I wonder how I will do that :-(
>
> Thanks for the report.
Yes, try 2.4.1 (just released).
Tha
This patch should go in 2.6.17-rc2 if at all possible. If the problem
gets left much longer, a more ugly solution might be needed.
### Comments for Changeset
reshape_position is a 64bit field that was not 64bit aligned.
So swap with new_level.
NOTE: this is a user-visible change. However:
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On Thursday April 6, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> When I try to create a RAID1 array with ver 1.0 superblock using mdadm
> > 2.2 I'm getting:
> WARNING - superblock isn't sized correctly
>
> Looking at the code (and adding a bit more debugging) it is clear that
> all 3 checks fail in super1.c's calc
Matthias,
Your best bet is to not activate the md mirrors until you need to.
There is a theoretical case where one system (A) can be writing data
while the other (B) is doing a remirror. B reads data in prep for a
write, A writes to that same block, then B writes the old data.
LVM does not re
When I try to create a RAID1 array with ver 1.0 superblock using mdadm
> 2.2 I'm getting:
WARNING - superblock isn't sized correctly
Looking at the code (and adding a bit more debugging) it is clear that
all 3 checks fail in super1.c's calc_sb_1_csum()'s "make sure I can
count..." test.
Is this a
On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, andy liebman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a fundamental question about WHERE it is best to do partititioning.
>
> Here's a concrete example. I have two 3ware RAID-5 arrays, each made up
> of 12 500 GB drives. When presented to Linux, these are /dev/sda and
> /dev/sdb -- each 5.5
Hi,
I have a fundamental question about WHERE it is best to do partititioning.
Here's a concrete example. I have two 3ware RAID-5 arrays, each made up
of 12 500 GB drives. When presented to Linux, these are /dev/sda and
/dev/sdb -- each 5.5 TB in size.
I want to stripe the two arrays togethe
