Bug#624343: data corruption: md changes max_sector setting of running md devices

2013-01-07 Thread NeilBrown
On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 13:34:05 +0100 (CET) bug556...@arcor.de wrote: > > Hello, > thanks for responding. > > NeilBrown: > > The upstream bug tracker is > >mailto:linux-r...@vger.kernel.org > > Well ok, though a regular mailinglist makes it rather hard to get an overview > for non-devs, > and

Bug#624343: data corruption: md changes max_sector setting of running md devices

2013-01-07 Thread bug556610
Hello, thanks for responding. NeilBrown: > The upstream bug tracker is >mailto:linux-r...@vger.kernel.org Well ok, though a regular mailinglist makes it rather hard to get an overview for non-devs, and reporting involves receiving unrelated messages. > This really needs to be fixed by cle

Bug#624343: data corruption: md changes max_sector setting of running md devices

2013-01-06 Thread NeilBrown
On Sun, 6 Jan 2013 12:31:46 +0100 (CET) bug556...@arcor.de wrote: > Alan Woodland: > > If I've understood this correctly one possible workaround for this > > (for the time being) would be to add a boot parameter that lets you > > artificially limit max_hw_sectors? In this case it seems forcing all

Bug#624343: data corruption: md changes max_sector setting of running md devices

2013-01-06 Thread bug556610
Alan Woodland: > If I've understood this correctly one possible workaround for this > (for the time being) would be to add a boot parameter that lets you > artificially limit max_hw_sectors? In this case it seems forcing all > md devices down from 248 to 240 would probably avoid potential data > lo