Re: Recovery speed at 1MB/s/device, unable to change

2006-04-24 Thread Anssi Hannula
Anssi Hannula wrote: Neil Brown wrote: On Monday April 24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # mdadm --grow /dev/md_d1 --raid-devices=3 --backup-file backupfile mdadm: Need to backup 128K of critical section.. mdadm: /dev/md_d1: Cannot get array details from sysfs Strace shows that it's trying to

Re: Problem with 5disk RAID5 array - two drives lost

2006-04-24 Thread David Greaves
Arthur Britto wrote: On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 17:17 -0700, Tim Bostrom wrote: I bought two extra 250GB drives - I'll try using dd_rescue as recommended and see if I can get a good copy of hdf online. You might want to use dd_rhelp: http://www.kalysto.org/utilities/dd_rhelp/index.en.html Having

Re: to be or not to be...

2006-04-24 Thread gelma
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 07:45:27AM +1000, Neil Brown wrote: your array isn't degraded. In this case it is (I think) very unusual and may not be the cause of your corruption, but you should avoid using the flag anyway. thanks a lot for your time and your attention, Neil. Your support it's fast

Re: Raid5 Debian Yaird Woes

2006-04-24 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Sun, 5 Feb 2006 09:07:29 +1100 Lewis Shobbrook wrote: Basically it just states waiting X seconds Please post in public rather than to me privately. If this debate is related to a bug already filed against the Debian package of yaird then cc that bugreport: bug number@bugs.debian.org - and

Re: Raid5 Debian Yaird Woes

2006-04-24 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 17:13:42 +0200 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: On Sun, 5 Feb 2006 09:07:29 +1100 Lewis Shobbrook wrote: Basically it just states waiting X seconds Please post in public rather than to me privately. Uh, how embarrassing: I thought I was looking in my inbox, but instead was

Re: disks becoming slow but not explicitly failing anyone?

2006-04-24 Thread Nix
On 23 Apr 2006, Mark Hahn stipulated: I've seen a lot of cheap disks say (generally deep in the data sheet that's only available online after much searching and that nobody ever reads) that they are only reliable if used for a maximum of twelve hours a day, or 90 hours a week, or something of

Anyone with experience with Acronis TrueImage for Linux 9.1 and MD/Software RAID

2006-04-24 Thread Colin McDonald
I have used Acronis to create quick images of critical servers that were using either hardware RAID or that had a single drive. It works great and is probably one of the best imaging tools that I have seen up until i tried to restore an image of md partitions on a RHEL 3 box. I have two 250GB SATA

[patch 1/2] raid6_end_write_request() spinlock fix

2006-04-24 Thread Coywolf Qi Hunt
Hello, Reduce the raid6_end_write_request() spinlock window. Signed-off-by: Coywolf Qi Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- diff --git a/drivers/md/raid6main.c b/drivers/md/raid6main.c index bc69355..820536e 100644 --- a/drivers/md/raid6main.c +++ b/drivers/md/raid6main.c @@ -468,7 +468,6 @@ static int

[patch 2/2] raid6_unplug_device() fix

2006-04-24 Thread Coywolf Qi Hunt
Hello, Fix raid6_unplug_device() to not disturb raid6d unnecessarily. Signed-off-by: Coywolf Qi Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- diff --git a/drivers/md/raid6main.c b/drivers/md/raid6main.c index 820536e..d3deedb 100644 --- a/drivers/md/raid6main.c +++ b/drivers/md/raid6main.c @@ -1644,8 +1644,8 @@

Re: [patch 1/2] raid6_end_write_request() spinlock fix

2006-04-24 Thread Neil Brown
On Tuesday April 25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Reduce the raid6_end_write_request() spinlock window. Andrew: please don't include these in -mm. This one and the corresponding raid5 are wrong, and I'm not sure yet the unplug_device changes. In this case, the call to md_error, which in