faulty.c does not accurately simulate failures...

2006-10-28 Thread Roger Gammans
Hi As the subject says there are differences in the behaviour of simulated failures by faulty, and of a real drive with bad sectors. There are two ways this manifests itself:- 1) Bad sectors on reall devices often tend to occur a groups, this is faulty.c is

Re: Propose of enhancement of raid1 driver

2006-10-28 Thread Al Boldi
Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote: Neil Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Skipping over blocks within a track is no faster than reading blocks in the track, so you would need to make sure that your chunk size is Not even no faster but probably even slower. Surely slower, on conventional hds

Re: PERC5 - MegaRaid-SAS problems..

2006-10-28 Thread Chris Allen
Andrew Moise wrote: On 10/17/06, Gordon Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have had problems with XFS, but that was about 2 years ago, so things might have improved by then. Well, filling some random files with zeroes because of an unclean shutdown is still defined as correct behavior in