Re: stripes of raid5s -> crash

1999-10-20 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 11:16:47AM -0800, Christopher E. Brown wrote: > > Can you duplicate this using only one of the raid5 sets? I tried to cause > > the same behvior with a single raid5 set and it worked fine... but I did not > > layer raid on raid, perhaps this is where the issue is? > >

RE: stripes of raid5s -> crash

1999-10-19 Thread Christopher E. Brown
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Tom Livingston wrote: > Florian Lohoff wrote: > > I did a bit further - Hung the machine - Couldnt log in (All Terms > > hang immediatly) - Tried to reboot and when it hung at > > "Unmounting file..." > > i got a term SysRq- Tand saw many processes stuck in the D state. > > >

Re: stripes of raid5s -> crash

1999-10-16 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Sat, Oct 16, 1999 at 04:12:54PM -0700, Tom Livingston wrote: > Florian Lohoff: > > > Can you duplicate this using only one of the raid5 sets? I > > tried to cause > > > > A stripe of ONE raid5 doesnt make sense ... > > If you say so. > > What I meant of course, is can you duplicate the same b

RE: stripes of raid5s -> crash

1999-10-16 Thread Tom Livingston
Florian Lohoff: > > Can you duplicate this using only one of the raid5 sets? I > tried to cause > > A stripe of ONE raid5 doesnt make sense ... If you say so. What I meant of course, is can you duplicate the same behavior using ONLY ONE /dev/mdX "disk" That is, only initialize /dev/md0, mke2fs

Re: stripes of raid5s -> crash

1999-10-16 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 04:11:31PM -0700, Tom Livingston wrote: > Florian Lohoff wrote: > > I did a bit further - Hung the machine - Couldnt log in (All Terms > > hang immediatly) - Tried to reboot and when it hung at > > "Unmounting file..." > > i got a term SysRq- Tand saw many processes stuck i

RE: stripes of raid5s -> crash

1999-10-14 Thread Tom Livingston
Florian Lohoff wrote: > I did a bit further - Hung the machine - Couldnt log in (All Terms > hang immediatly) - Tried to reboot and when it hung at > "Unmounting file..." > i got a term SysRq- Tand saw many processes stuck in the D state. > > Seems something produces a deadlock (ll_rw_blk ?) and

Re: stripes of raid5s -> crash

1999-10-14 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 01:39:58PM -0700, Tom Livingston wrote: > Florian Lohoff wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 05:46:36PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote: > > > Hi, > > > i am discovering reproduceable crashes with stripes of raid5s > > > > > > Kernel 2.2.12 + raid0145-19990824-2.2.11.gz > > > r

Re: stripes of raid5s -> crash

1999-10-14 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 01:39:58PM -0700, Tom Livingston wrote: > Florian Lohoff wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 05:46:36PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote: > > > Hi, > > > i am discovering reproduceable crashes with stripes of raid5s > > > > > > Kernel 2.2.12 + raid0145-19990824-2.2.11.gz > > > r

RE: stripes of raid5s -> crash

1999-10-14 Thread Tom Livingston
Florian Lohoff wrote: > On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 05:46:36PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote: > > Hi, > > i am discovering reproduceable crashes with stripes of raid5s > > > > Kernel 2.2.12 + raid0145-19990824-2.2.11.gz > > raidtools 19990924 > > > > Message is "Got md request" and machine freezes hard

Re: stripes of raid5s -> crash

1999-10-14 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 05:46:36PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote: > Hi, > i am discovering reproduceable crashes with stripes of raid5s > > Kernel 2.2.12 + raid0145-19990824-2.2.11.gz > raidtools 19990924 > > Message is "Got md request" and machine freezes hard ... Console > switching works but