md/mdadm fails to properly run on 2.6.15 after upgrading from 2.6.11

2006-04-09 Thread Marc L. de Bruin
Hi, (I just subscribed, sorry if this is a dupe. I did try to match the subject from the archives, but couldn't find any...) I ran into trouble after upgrading a Debian Sarge system from 2.6.11 to 2.6.15. To be more precise, it turned out that md/mdadm seems to not function properly during

Re: A failed-disk-how-to anywhere?

2006-04-09 Thread Brad Campbell
Martin Stender wrote: Hi there! I have two identical disks sitting on a Promise dual channel IDE controller. I guess both disks are primary's then. One of the disks have failed, so I bought a new disk, took out the failed disk, and put in the new one. That might seem a little naive, and

Re: md/mdadm fails to properly run on 2.6.15 after upgrading from 2.6.11

2006-04-09 Thread dean gaudet
On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, Marc L. de Bruin wrote: ... Okay, just pressing Control-D continues the boot process and AFAIK the root filesystemen actually isn't corrupt. Running e2fsck returns no errors and booting 2.6.11 works just fine, but I have no clue why it picked the wrong partitions to build

Re: md/mdadm fails to properly run on 2.6.15 after upgrading from 2.6.11

2006-04-09 Thread Luca Berra
On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 02:35:53PM +0200, Marc L. de Bruin wrote: Hi, (I just subscribed, sorry if this is a dupe. I did try to match the subject from the archives, but couldn't find any...) I ran into trouble after upgrading a Debian Sarge system from 2.6.11 to 2.6.15. To be more precise,

Re: A failed-disk-how-to anywhere?

2006-04-09 Thread Mike Hardy
Brad Campbell wrote: Martin Stender wrote: Hi there! I have two identical disks sitting on a Promise dual channel IDE controller. I guess both disks are primary's then. One of the disks have failed, so I bought a new disk, took out the failed disk, and put in the new one. That might

Re: A failed-disk-how-to anywhere?

2006-04-09 Thread Martin Stender
I'm sorry - I replied to Brad's email a few hours ago, but I was a bit too fast, and didn't notice I was replying to his personal account. Here's my reply - as you can see, all is fine now! Thank you both! (doing a '#cat /proc/mdstat', show that everything went well) Martin reply Hello

Re: linear writes to raid5

2006-04-09 Thread Mark Hahn
is there a way to batch explicitely write requests raid5 issues? sort of like TCP_CORK? for example, there is a raid5 built from 3 disks with chunk=64K. one types dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/md0 bs=128k count=1 OK, so this is an aligned, whole-stripe write. and 128K bio gets into the raid5.

Re: Can't mount /dev/md0 after stopping a synchronization

2006-04-09 Thread Tuomas Leikola
On 4/8/06, Mike Garey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have one last question though.. When I update /boot/grub/menu.lst while booted from /dev/md0 with both disks available, does this file get written to the MBR on both disks, or do I have to do this manually? Grub's configuration lives on both

Re: linear writes to raid5

2006-04-09 Thread Neil Brown
On Saturday April 8, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good day all, is there a way to batch explicitely write requests raid5 issues? for example, there is a raid5 built from 3 disks with chunk=64K. one types dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/md0 bs=128k count=1 and 128K bio gets into the raid5. raid5