Bug#274859: [help needed] RAID and /dev advice needed

2005-05-23 Thread Neil Brown
On Monday May 23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > tags 274859 +patch > thanks > > [martin f krafft] > > I checked out the source and opening is not hard... but mdadm also > > creates device nodes and uses S_ISBLK all over the place, so I don't > > really know whether adding a "|| S_ISLNK" will fix i

Bug#406181: fix submitted yet?

2007-01-24 Thread Neil Brown
On Thursday January 11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks for the report, and the patch. Has the raid1 recovery fix been > submitted upstream yet? I've sent it to Andrew Morton. I suspect it will be in 2.6.20 I'll be sending it to -stable later today. NeilBrown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Bug#402416: Important data loss with Debian/GNU 3.1 (Sarge), kernel 2.6.18 and RAID1 software

2006-12-16 Thread Neil Brown
On Saturday December 16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Don't use the Debian/GNU 3.1 with software RAID1 and kernel 2.6.18. > I tested with SCSI and IDE drives with different controllers and PCs > and IMPORTANT DATA LOSS can occur. It seems to be a problem with mdadm, > maybe a new version of mdadm

Bug#398058: [NFS] nhfsstone license

2006-12-18 Thread Neil Brown
On Thursday December 14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 05:20:34PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > No modification required if we remove it from upstream too. Do people > > use it? > > It seems like nobody does, judging from the response. Is there any chance of > a relativel

Bug#396582: Some additional info

2006-11-06 Thread Neil Brown
On Thursday November 2, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Neil, can we apply the patch contributed to fix this: > > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi/mdadm-fix-infinite-loop.diff?bug=396582;msg=5;att=1 > > or do I remember that you previously replaced devlist with NULL to > fix anothe

Bug#413450: libc6: svc_getreqset doesn't work on 64bit hosts

2007-03-04 Thread Neil Brown
Package: libc6 Version: 2.3.6.ds1-13 Severity: normal Tags: patch On 64bit machines, svc_getreqset ignores filedescriptors 32-63 and others. This has been fixed in glibc 2.4 but needs to be fixed in 2.3.6.debian while we keep using it. The consequence of this bug is that if mountd (or any other r

Bug#415441: s2disk and raid

2007-04-03 Thread Neil Brown
On Tuesday April 3, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I've got a bugreport [0] from a user trying to use raid and uswsusp. He's > using initramfs-tools available in debian. I'll describe the problem > and my analysis, maybe you can comment on what you think. A warning: I only > have a casual unde

Bug#390954: slapd is compiled withou SLAPI support

2006-10-03 Thread Neil Brown
Package: slapd Version: 2.3.27-1 Severity: normal Compiling slapd with SLAPI support would make it a lot easier to develop, test, and use SLAPI plugins :-) Thanks NeilBrown -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architectur

Bug#390954: [Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#390954: slapd is compiled withou SLAPI support

2006-10-12 Thread Neil Brown
On Thursday October 12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > That's for sure :) Do you know if it could impact stability of the > packages? I do not really want to risk anything as the packages > should get ready for the release soon... I haven't done a thorough review of the code, but from what I have

Bug#382326: missing /dev/mdX cause assembly to fail *and* to generate missing nodes

2006-08-10 Thread Neil Brown
On Thursday August 10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Package: mdadm > Version: 2.5.3-1~unreleased.3 > Severity: normal > > Dear Neil, > > Here's an issue I've stumbled over today: say /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf > refers to /dev/md1, but that does not exist during boot and udev > does *not* create it. Now

Bug#394193: initramfs-tools: root file system fails to mount when mounting by a label, on top of an md device.

2006-10-22 Thread Neil Brown
-- Send online/offline uevents when an md array starts/stops. This allows udev to do something intellegent when an array becomes available. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ### Diffstat output ./drivers/md/md.c |2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff .prev/drive

Bug#604457: linux-image-2.6.26-2-xen-686: Raid10 exporting LV to xen results in error "can't convert block across chunks or bigger than 64k"

2010-11-27 Thread Neil Brown
On Sat, 27 Nov 2010 19:53:54 + Ben Hutchings wrote: > Neil, would you mind looking at this: > > On Sat, 2010-11-27 at 10:49 +0100, Wouter D'Haeseleer wrote: > > Ben, > > > > I'm running 4 days now without any disk errors anymore. > > As stated in my previous message this is with the RedHat

Bug#604457: linux-image-2.6.26-2-xen-686: Raid10 exporting LV to xen results in error "can't convert block across chunks or bigger than 64k"

2010-11-28 Thread Neil Brown
On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 04:18:25 + Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2010-11-28 at 08:28 +1100, Neil Brown wrote: > > The fix I would recommend for 2.6.26 is to add > > > >if (q->merge_bvec_fn) > >rs->max_phys_segments = 1; > > > > to

Bug#604457: linux-image-2.6.26-2-xen-686: Raid10 exporting LV to xen results in error "can't convert block across chunks or bigger than 64k"

2010-11-28 Thread Neil Brown
On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 00:08:47 + Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > if (q->merge_bvec_fn && !ti->type->merge) > > limits->max_segments = 1; > > > > (the test on ->type->merge is important and applies to 2.6.26 as well). > > Why is it not necessary to set seg_boundary_mask to PAGE_C

Bug#644470: git-daemon-run: git-run-daemon should use --reuseaddr to ensure clean restart during upgrade etc.

2011-10-05 Thread Neil Brown
Package: git-daemon-run Version: 1:1.7.6.3-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, sometimes an incoming connection the the git-daemon will abort in such a way that the daemon doesn't notice and keeps the connection open. When git is upgraded the daemon will be killed and restarted. When it

Bug#422554: After reboot, drives marked faulty/removed get reassebled as the mirrored array instead of the healthy ones

2007-05-06 Thread Neil Brown
On Sunday May 6, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Package: mdadm > Version: 2.5.6-9 > > I don't know whether this is a bug, but here's what happened. > I had two mirrors operational /dev/hd[ac]1 and /dev/hd[ac]3 on md0 and md1, > respectively. > On Apr 23, /dev/hdc started to complain about bad sectors

Bug#416512: removed disk && md-device

2007-05-10 Thread Neil Brown
On Wednesday May 9, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.04.02.0953 +0200]: > >Hmmm... this is somewhat awkward. You could argue that udev should be > >taught to remove the device from the array before removing the device > >from /dev.

Bug#416512: removed disk && md-device

2007-05-10 Thread Neil Brown
On Thursday May 10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Neil Brown wrote: > > On Wednesday May 9, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.04.02.0953 +0200]: > >>> Hmmm... this is somewhat awkward. You could argue that udev should be > &

Bug#416512: removed disk && md-device

2007-05-10 Thread Neil Brown
On Thursday May 10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > No, I haven't, but it is getting near the top of my list. I have just committed a change to the mdadm .git so that mdadm /dev/md4 --fail detached will fail any components of /dev/md4 that appear to be detached (open returns -ENXIO). and mdad

Bug#435522: latex2html: Does not correct handle framebox in picture environments

2007-08-01 Thread Neil Brown
Package: latex2html Version: 2002-2-1-20050114-5 Severity: normal Tags: patch latex2html seems to expect framebox to take two options (square bracket) arguments before the main argument. Infact it takes a (), a [] and then the {}. This patch fixes it for me. --- /usr/bin/latex2html.orig20

Bug#496334: mdadm segfault on --assemble --force with raid10

2008-10-12 Thread Neil Brown
I believe this bug is fixed by http://neil.brown.name/git?p=mdadm;a=commitdiff;h=60b435db5a7b085ad1204168879037bf14ebd6d1 see below. NeilBrown From: Chris Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:30:39 + (+1000) Subject: Fix bug in forced assemble. X-Git-Tag: mdadm-3.0-devel1~

Bug#495580: mdadm: 4 disk raid10 with 1 active and 3 spare possible

2008-10-12 Thread Neil Brown
On Wednesday August 20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The current Debian sid kernel 2.6.26-2 does sync the disks if I add > them. > I tried now even the newer 2.6.27-rc3-git6 out, because it has a few MD > changes. > That one adds the disks only as `spare' but does not start a resync. I cannot rep

Bug#500309: mdadm thinks disk is not large enough to be added, but it is (v1 superblock)

2008-10-13 Thread Neil Brown
On Saturday September 27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Package: mdadm > Version: 2.6.7-3.1 > Severity: important > Tags: upstream > > md0 : active raid1 hda1[1] > 64220 blocks super 1.0 [2/1] [_U] > > wall:/# sfdisk -s /dev/hdc1 > 64228 > > wall:/# mdadm --add /dev/md0 /dev/hdc1 > mdadm: /de

Bug#509167: mdadm: check asprintf() return codes

2009-01-07 Thread Neil Brown
On Monday January 5, kirkl...@canonical.com wrote: > On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 16:02 +1100, Neil Brown wrote: > > I'm not really keen on taking this sort of patch. > > It isn't clear that an abort (caused by the assert) is really much > > better than just segfaulting n

Bug#498505: mdadm: Bug still not fixed

2008-11-05 Thread Neil Brown
.6.7.1. I include it below. NeilBrown >From 56f8add211a840faaed325bd16483b55da544e93 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:30:36 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] Fix an error when assembling arrays that are in the middle of a reshape. It is important

Bug#489608: mdadm: similar kernel call traces

2008-11-09 Thread Neil Brown
This bug is a kernel bug rather than an mdadm bug. It is almost certainly the bug fixed by commit 9744197c3d7b329590c2be33ad7b17409bd798fe which went into 2.6.27. Nothing is actually going wrong. It is just an annoying message. If it bothers you, run the command echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/

Bug#509167: mdadm: check asprintf() return codes

2008-12-18 Thread Neil Brown
I'm not really keen on taking this sort of patch. It isn't clear that an abort (caused by the assert) is really much better than just segfaulting normally ... though you do get a message I guess. But it makes the code rather ugly. Maybe if you defined a asprintf_nofail (possibly an inline in mdad

Bug#375879: fails to prepare initramfs if root is on LVM on RAID

2006-06-28 Thread Neil Brown
On Wednesday June 28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Package: mdadm > Version: 2.5.2-1 > Severity: important > > If rootfs is on LVM, which in turn is on RAID, the mdadm hook > determines that RAID is not needed: > > ++ df / > ++ sed -ne 's,^\(/dev/[^[:space:]]\+\).*,\1,p' > + ROOTRAIDDEV=/dev/

Bug#372696: cupsys: cupsd crashes mysteriously

2006-06-11 Thread Neil Brown
Package: cupsys Version: 1.2.1-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Cupsd crashes occasionally, particularly when browing the web interface. I compiled from src and ran 'gdb' on the version with all the symbols still intact, and the problem is near line 2541 on scheduler/dir

Bug#372618: Fwd: Bug#372618: mdadm --monitor consumes much memory and idle cpu

2006-06-11 Thread Neil Brown
sumption grows up to around 50% running > /sbin/mdadm --monitor --pid-file /var/run/mdadm.pid --mail root > --daemonise --scan > Yeah, thanks... See patch. NeilBrown Fix memory leak in monitor mode When rescanning /dev, we didn't free the old list. Also don't search for devic

Bug#367901: mdadm --examine returns non-zero exit code even though it appears to have been successful

2006-05-18 Thread Neil Brown
see no reason why mdadm shouldn't exit with code 0... Neither can I. It'll be fixed in the next release. Thanks. NeilBrown Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ### Diffstat output ./Examine.c |5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff ./Exami

Bug#373802: Fwd: Bug#373802: FTBFS with GCC 4.2: cast from pointer to integer of different size

2006-06-15 Thread Neil Brown
On Thursday June 15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > tags 373802 confirmed upstream > thanks > > Neil, this one's for you.. future compatibility and all that jazz. > :) > > - Forwarded message from Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > > Now it fails with the following error with GCC 4.2.

Bug#369779: strict aliasing bug in mdadm

2006-06-01 Thread Neil Brown
On Thursday June 1, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > tags 369779 + confirmed upstream pending > thanks > > I can confirm this bug. For now, it surely suffices to add > -fno-strict-aliasing in Debian if you, Neil, still use the flag for > development. > > I am surely not touching dlink.h, even though th

Bug#344617: closed by martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Re: Fwd: Re: userspace incorrectly detects RAID (d-i))

2006-06-01 Thread Neil Brown
On Thursday June 1, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Unfortunately, this means that you have to recreate the arrays. At > > least I do not know of a way to migrate version-0 to version-1. > > Magic : a92b4efc > Version : 00.90.00 >UUID : 881b45c3:b1f47d8a:7b9b8401:167b0d0

Bug#534470: Using mdadm 2.6.7.2 to assemble a raid array created with mdadm 1.9.0 will corrupt it making mdadm 1.9.0 to crash when trying to reassemble

2009-06-25 Thread Neil Brown
On Wednesday June 24, francois-xavier.russo...@cea.fr wrote: > Package: mdadm > Version: 2.6.7.2 > Severity: critical > > After booting a Debian 5.0.1 - Lenny install cdrom in rescue mode > (debian-501-ia64-netinst.iso) on an Itanium 2 server with Debian 3.1 > - Sarge (ia64) installed on a softwar

Bug#435522: latex2html: Does not correct handle framebox in picture environments

2007-10-07 Thread Neil Brown
On Wednesday October 3, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > thanks for your report and the patch and sorry for the delay. > > Neil Brown wrote: > > latex2html seems to expect framebox to take two options (square bracket) > > arguments before the > > main argu

Bug#445573: auto-ro raids have 'recover' for sync-action

2007-10-07 Thread Neil Brown
. NeilBrown Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ### Diffstat output ./drivers/md/md.c |2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff .prev/drivers/md/md.c ./drivers/md/md.c --- .prev/drivers/md/md.c 2007-08-20 11:36:09.0 +1000 +++ ./drivers

Bug#442874: mdadm: --write-mostly does nothing if device is re-added using --add

2007-09-23 Thread Neil Brown
Thanks for the bug report. This is now fixed in the upstream .git by the following patch. It highlights the fact that while you can turn on the write-mostly bit, you cannot easily turn it off. I wonder if that is a problem. NeilBrown ### Diffstat output ./Manage.c |8 +--- 1 file ch

Bug#443591: [NFS] Bug#443591: nfs-kernel-server: Unexporting directories no longer working

2007-09-24 Thread Neil Brown
On Sunday September 23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 10:42:31AM -0700, David Liontooth wrote: > > Package: nfs-kernel-server > > Version: 1:1.1.0-13 > > Severity: normal > > > > > > The command to unexport a directory appears to no longer have any effect. > > > > I issue "e

Bug#446323: mdadm: recovery in infinite loop

2007-10-11 Thread Neil Brown
On Thursday October 11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Package: mdadm > Version: 2.5.6-9 > Severity: normal > > Hello, > I am trying to setup raid1 on my pc. > I have 2 identical drives. 270+gb. each with 3 partitions. > 30gb hdb1 -> md0 > 250gb hdb2 ->md2 > 4gb swap hdb5 ->md4 > > Initially my

Bug#446323: mdadm: recovery in infinite loop

2007-10-12 Thread Neil Brown
On Friday October 12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > yes I have. > Then I tried booting in knoppix to see if maybe there are hdd problems > so I run e2fsck on both drives to see if there are any issues. > reboot and it still does the same thing. Ok, it must be caused by some persistent state. Could yo

Bug#443591: [NFS] Bug#443591: nfs-kernel-server: Unexporting directories no longer working

2007-10-14 Thread Neil Brown
On Monday September 24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi Neil, > > Thanks for looking. > > Neil Brown wrote: > > On Sunday September 23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >> On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 10:42:31AM -0700, David Liontooth wrote: > >>

Bug#445573: auto-ro raids have 'recover' for sync-action

2007-10-14 Thread Neil Brown
On Monday October 8, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > reassign 445573 linux-image-2.6.18-5-686 > tags 445573 patch confirmed > severity 445573 minor > thanks > > also sprach Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.10.08.0231 +0100]: > > Yep, this is a kernel bug. > &

Bug#446323: mdadm: recovery in infinite loop

2007-10-15 Thread Neil Brown
On Monday October 15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > seems as the size is the same? "seems". I was hoping for cat /proc/partitions and maybe even fdisk -l /dev/hda /dev/hdb I should have been more specific. NeilBrown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Bug#446323: mdadm: recovery in infinite loop

2007-10-15 Thread Neil Brown
As you say, the devices are exactly the same size, thanks. On Monday October 15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > how do I undo? mdadm /dev/md2 -f /dev/hda2 > So I could try the sync in init 1 > Lucas Well, you could: mdadm /dev/md2 -f /dev/hda2 mdadm /dev/md2 -r /dev/hda2 then when you are r

Bug#485989: mdadm metadata issue

2009-09-15 Thread Neil Brown
On Monday August 31, robe...@debath.co.uk wrote: > On Sun, 30 Aug 2009, martin f krafft wrote: > > > Why specify it in the first place? I suggest to remove all metadata= > > stuff from mdadm.conf. Inspect the /usr/share/mdadm/mkconf output. > > I didn't. > > It got added automatically... Bug?

Bug#462154: mdadm: It's not only --monitor --scan

2008-04-28 Thread Neil Brown
On Friday April 11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have attached said patch, maybe it should be included in the > > Debian package? > > Jonathan, does the patch fix things for you? > > Neil, the patch on > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=462154 is not > upstream yet. Should I add

Bug#474548: mdadm: error hot-adding drive to raid1 array after fail

2008-04-28 Thread Neil Brown
On Friday April 11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > tags 474548 upstream > thanks > > also sprach Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.04.06.1525 +0200]: > > seems like there is an error in 2.6.x stream of mdadm, when trying to > > hot add a disk to a raid1 array after 1 disk failed. > > > > I tried t

Bug#463769: Fails on files (ie disk images)

2008-04-29 Thread Neil Brown
On Friday April 11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > also sprach Wakko Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.04.11.1802 +0200]: > > That wasn't the point. The point was I wasn't able to "examine" > > the "file". There's absolutely no reason that one has to attach it > > to a loopback device just to examine t

Bug#484460: hal-info: Video Quirks wrong for Dell Latitude D820

2008-06-04 Thread Neil Brown
Package: hal-info Version: 20080317+git20080318-1 Severity: normal My Dell Latitude D820 doesn't have working video after a suspend/resume cycle. It seems that the quirk in 20-video-quirk-pm-dell.fdi is wrong, at least for my notebook. It contains true I need true

Bug#489257: mdadm.conf manpage does not explain HOMEHOST option

2008-07-06 Thread Neil Brown
On Friday July 4, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Package: mdadm > Version: 2.6.7-2 > Severity: minor > > Hi, > > the mdadm.conf man page does not explain the HOMEHOST setting. True. A future release will have this text: HOMEHOST The homehost line gives a default value for t

Bug#492970: (was: nfs-utils-1.1.3 released)

2008-08-03 Thread Neil Brown
On Saturday August 2, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 11:15:33PM +1000, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 03:13:19AM -0400, Steve Dickson wrote: > > >I just cut the 1.1.3 nfs-utils release. Unfortunately I'm having > > >issues accessing my kernel.org acco

Bug#462154: mdadm: It's not only --monitor --scan

2008-03-05 Thread Neil Brown
On Tuesday March 4, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Package: mdadm > Version: 2.6.4-1 > Followup-For: Bug #462154 > > > I've had it after a few creates (raid benchmarking atm) as well, and > assembles. > > It seems to crash *after* what it's supposed to do, though, i. e.: > > segfault at 00

Bug#458327: closed by martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Re: Bug#458327: on reboot mdadm fails to mount all drives in a raid5 array)

2008-01-03 Thread Neil Brown
It looks like you are relaying on in-kernel autodetection, and sdd2 and sdd1 don't have the RAID Autodetect partition type. I would change all the partition types to something else myself, but it would work to change those two to be Autodetect. NeilBrown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Bug#434565: vm: 8bit characters are not escapes in In-reply-to field

2007-07-24 Thread Neil Brown
Package: vm Version: 7.19-14 Severity: normal When I reply to an email from someone with an 8-bit character in their name, such as "=?iso-8859-1?Q?V=EDctor_Paesa?=" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The In-reply-to field gets the un-escaped name: In-Reply-To: message from Víctor Paesa on Sunday July 15

Bug#356630: Make always recompiles everything in the Linux Kernel.

2006-03-12 Thread Neil Brown
Package: make Version: 3.80+3.81.rc1-1 Severity: important While doing kernel development (in the latest -mm tree if it makes a difference), make always want to recompile everything since upgrading to this version. Other packages with simpler make files work ok. I've just down graded to 3.80+3

Bug#587550: mdadm: "--manage --remove faulty" does not remove all faulty disks

2010-06-30 Thread Neil Brown
On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:24:07 -0400 Jim Paris wrote: > My guess is that in Manage.c:Manage_subdevs, the loops like > for (; j < array.raid_disks + array.nr_disks ; j++) { > are missing disks because the disk numbers are changing as they are > removed, but I didn't have the time to follow the c

Bug#511417: Raid1 resync does not run in the background

2010-02-19 Thread Neil Brown
On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:37:29 +0100 Joachim Zobel wrote: > Do the upstream kernel developers know about this? A box unnecessarily > taking 1h+ for a reboot is a rather serious problem. I do now. I'm quite surprised though. Any attempted by other programs to access the devices should cause the r

Bug#567468: md homehost (was: Bug#567468: (boot time consequences of) Linux mdadm superblock) question.

2010-02-22 Thread Neil Brown
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:16:32 +0100 martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Piergiorgio Sartor [2010.02.21.2113 > +0100]: > > I do not see how the "homehost" plays a role, here. > > Neil, > > Could you please put forth the argument for why the homehost must > match, and why unconditional auto-ass

Bug#567468: md homehost (was: Bug#567468: (boot time consequences of) Linux mdadm superblock) question.

2010-02-23 Thread Neil Brown
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:27:00 +0100 martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Neil Brown [2010.02.23.0330 +0100]: > > The problem to protect against is any consequence of rearranging > > devices while the host is off, including attaching devices that > > previously were at

Bug#567468: md homehost

2010-02-24 Thread Neil Brown
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:52:57 +0100 "Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe" wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 02:13:53PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > grub.cfg (grub2) uses UUID for grub itself. But the kernel can be bootet > > with root=/dev/md0. But in that case where does it get the homehost from > >

Bug#567468: md homehost

2010-02-24 Thread Neil Brown
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:41:16 +0100 Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Neil Brown writes: > > > On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:27:00 +0100 > > martin f krafft wrote: > >> The only issue homehost protects against, I think, is machines that > >> use /dev/md0 directly from

Bug#567468: md homehost

2010-02-24 Thread Neil Brown
On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:16:14 +0100 Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Neil Brown writes: > > > On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:41:16 +0100 > > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > >> Neil Brown writes: > >> > >> > On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:27:00 +0100

Bug#569359: mdadm -Ds insists on /dev/md/X device presence

2010-06-07 Thread Neil Brown
On Mon, 7 Jun 2010 16:25:47 +0100 Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * martin f krafft [2010-05-26 10:31]: > > also sprach Neil Brown [2010.05.26.1016 +0200]: > > > The most likely explanation for this is that /var/run/mdadm/map existed > > > and > > > contained a

Bug#569359: mdadm -Ds insists on /dev/md/X device presence

2010-06-08 Thread Neil Brown
On Tue, 8 Jun 2010 12:37:38 +0200 martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Martin Michlmayr [2010.06.08.1124 +0200]: > > > It would be safer to use > > >mdadm -As > > > to ensure all arrays are assembled, then > > >mdadm -Ds > > > to create mdadm.conf > > > > > > ... but why do you even wan

Bug#597518: gnome-panel: workspace switch now ignores 'rows' setting

2010-09-20 Thread Neil Brown
Package: gnome-panel Version: 2.30.2-2 Severity: normal The recent gnome-panel update to 2.30.2-2 caused the workspace switcher to misbehave. My configuration is for 9 workspaces in 3 rows - so 3 by 3. This works find in 2.30.2-1 (which I have reverted back to). In 2.30.2-2, the '3 rows' setting

Bug#589413: mdadm: Segmentation fault when converting to RAID6 from RAID5

2010-07-21 Thread Neil Brown
On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 15:49:22 +0200 Björn Påhlsson wrote: . > # mdadm --verbose --grow /dev/md0 --level=raid6 --raid-devices=4 > > The output of that last command is: > > mdadm level of /dev/md0 changed to raid6 > Segmentation fault > When I try that (thanks for providing precise commands!

Bug#589413: mdadm: Segmentation fault when converting to RAID6 from RAID5

2010-07-21 Thread Neil Brown
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:15:32 +1000 Neil Brown wrote: > on Debian, though I'm still running 2.6.32-5-amd64. I doubt that would > make a difference, but it might. And if fact it does. I found a 2.6.34 kernel and hit the same bug. The mdadm bug is fixed by upst

Bug#585015: kernel 2.6.34 fails to boot normally with mdadm > 3.1.1-1

2010-07-22 Thread Neil Brown
On Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:25:13 +0200 "Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh)" wrote: > I've a system with lvm2 over raid1 and some filesystems encrypted. > When I updated mdadm from 3.1.1-1 to 3.1.2-1 the system failed to boot kernel > 2.6.34 (from experimental). > I tried 3.1.2-2 when it was released, I got the

Bug#585015: kernel 2.6.34 fails to boot normally with mdadm > 3.1.1-1

2010-07-22 Thread Neil Brown
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:30:17 +0200 Jean-Luc Coulon wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Le 22/07/2010 09:04, Neil Brown a écrit : > > > > > > > I wonder if it could be > >commit b179246f4f519082158279b2f45e5fd51842cc42 > &

Bug#585015: kernel 2.6.34 fails to boot normally with mdadm > 3.1.1-1

2010-07-22 Thread Neil Brown
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:36:47 +0200 Jean-Luc Coulon wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Le 22/07/2010 10:16, Neil Brown a écrit : > > > > On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:30:17 +0200 > > Jean-Luc Coulon wrote: > > [ ... ] > > >

Bug#590319: udevadm settle timeout with mdadm 3.1.2

2010-07-26 Thread Neil Brown
On Sun, 25 Jul 2010 22:08:12 +0200 Jan Echternach wrote: > Package: mdadm > Version: 3.1.2-2 > Severity: normal > > I get an udevadm settle timeout during boot after upgrading mdadm from > version 3.1.1-1 to 3.1.2-2: If you are up to compiling and installing your own mdadm, could you try revert

Bug#590319: udevadm settle timeout with mdadm 3.1.2

2010-07-28 Thread Neil Brown
On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:37:47 +0200 Jan Echternach wrote: > On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 06:44:25PM +1000, Neil Brown wrote: > > If you are up to compiling and installing your own mdadm, could you try > > reverting > > > > http://neil.brown.name

Bug#567167: format '%llu' expects type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 2 has type '__u64'

2010-01-27 Thread Neil Brown
On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 08:13:46 +1300 martin f krafft wrote: > Package: mdadm > Version: 3.1.1-1 > Severity: serious > Justification: no longer builds from source on certain architectures > Tags: upstream confirmed > Forwarded: ne...@suse.de > > -Wall -Werror -Wstrict-prototypes -ggdb -fomit-frame-

Bug#534470: Using mdadm 2.6.7.2 to assemble a raid array created with mdadm 1.9.0 will corrupt it making mdadm 1.9.0 to crash when trying to reassemble

2010-01-27 Thread Neil Brown
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:13:36 +1300 martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach RUSSOTTO François-Xavier 200103 > [2009.12.02.0407 +1300]: > > As I suggested to Neil: prior to auto-remount a raid array, the > > raid tool should perform a version checking so that, at least, > > user is warned that the r

Bug#517731: Please add raid1 -> raid5 reshaping support

2010-01-31 Thread Neil Brown
On Sunday March 1, goswin-...@web.de wrote: > Package: mdadm > Version: 2.6.8-12-gb47dff6-2 > Severity: wishlist > > Hi, > > just recently Ingo Juergensmann brought up a question on irc about > converting a raid1 into a raid5. Currently --grow does not support > that but one can achive it manualy

Bug#396570: mdadm: Incorrect error message for insufficient permission

2010-01-31 Thread Neil Brown
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:44:27 -0700 Rob Sims wrote: > Still not fixed: > $ mdadm --remove /dev/md0 /dev/sdd1 > mdadm: /dev/md0 does not appear to be an md device > $ mdadm --version > mdadm - v3.1.1 - 19th November 2009 Thanks. I have committed the following fix upstream which should resolve th

Bug#583495: super-intel.c:700: error: format '%llu' expects type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 3 has type '__u64'

2010-05-27 Thread Neil Brown
On Thu, 27 May 2010 21:51:47 +0200 martin f krafft wrote: > Package: mdadm > Version: 3.1.2-1 > Severity: serious > Tags: upstream > Justification: fails to build from source on ia64 (at least) > > Another one of these, which upstream will hopefully fix: > > gcc -Wall -Werror -Wstrict-prototype

Bug#271766: wiggle: Wiggle adds strange bogus conflict to merged file (Debian bug)

2010-03-22 Thread Neil Brown
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 06:45:12 +0200 Jari Aalto wrote: > Would you have any insight on this bug: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=271766 > > Unfortunately there is no test cases to try, so it's a long shot. Fortunately there is enough of a test-case. I found a suitable x

Bug#509167: mdadm: check asprintf() return codes

2009-02-01 Thread Neil Brown
On Thursday January 8, kirkl...@canonical.com wrote: > Neil- > > One more follow-up on this patch... > > I actually think that the code in the inline function should : > > - ret = asprintf(strp, fmt, ap); > + ret = vasprintf(strp, fmt, ap); > > Otherwise, we might fill ap into the f

Bug#511164: It'd be nice if mdadm -G --help mentioned "max" argument to -z switch

2009-02-01 Thread Neil Brown
On Wednesday January 7, chr...@debian.org wrote: > Package: mdadm > Version: 2.6.7-1 > Severity: wishlist > > It'd nice if the help printed out when running mdadm -G --help also > mentioned the "max" parameter that can be passed to the -z option. Just > a one-line mention would be fine. (I know

Bug#510261: mdadm: After install if sync is not done when rebooting, it starts over

2009-02-04 Thread Neil Brown
On Wednesday February 4, madd...@debian.org wrote: > tags 510261 confirmed upstream > forwarded 510261 ne...@suse.de > thanks > > also sprach John McMonagle [2008.12.30.2214 +0100]: > > In both cases I rebooted before the sync was done. > > In both cases arrays re-synced from the beginning. > > A

Bug#598721: mdadm: internal bitmap uses way too large chunks

2010-10-01 Thread Neil Brown
On Fri, 01 Oct 2010 13:53:13 +0200 Paul Slootman wrote: > Package: mdadm > Version: 3.1.4-1+8efb9d1 > Severity: important > > I noticed that when adding internal bitmaps to md devices, > that the chunks used were far too large: That depends on what you mean by 'too large'. I find that the ideal

Bug#594418: confirming that 3.0.3-2 is not affected by #594418

2010-08-25 Thread Neil Brown
I'm fairly sure this is a known bug which is fixed in 3.1.3 which has just been released in Debian (I think). The problem is that mdadm tries to use /lib/init/rw which doesn't exist during the initramfs stage. If you repeat your experiment with init=/bin/sh, and mkdir -p /lib/init/rw before s

Bug#434565: vm: 8bit characters are not escapes in In-reply-to field

2009-11-30 Thread Neil Brown
On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:14:02 -0600 Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Uday Reddy wrote: > > I agree that this is a bug. But, if you leave the variable > > vm-in-reply-to-format with its default value "%i" then you won't > > have this problem. > > manoj Thanks! I had completely forgotten that

Bug#554461: udev: partitions on sd* belonging to a software raid are not populated

2009-12-07 Thread Neil Brown
On Mon, 7 Dec 2009 18:55:24 +0100 m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) wrote: > reassign 554461 mdadm > thanks > > On Dec 07, Andrea Palazzi wrote: > > > At boot time the system (usually) complains about /dev/sdc and /dev/sdc1 > > having a very similar superblock, and suggests to clear the fake one; >

Bug#549083: Not working with 3.0.3-2

2009-11-08 Thread Neil Brown
On Sunday November 8, berbe...@fmi.uni-passau.de wrote: > hello, > > Am Sonntag, den 08. November schrieb M G Berberich: > > still not working with mdadm 3.0.3-2. During boot it failes with: > > > > Begin: Assemble all MD arrays ... Failure: failed to assemble all arrays > > > > and then can