Re: [PATCH md 2 of 4] Fix raid6 problem

2005-02-02 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:"A. James Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.raid > > > Sorry for the delay in replying, I've been using RAID6 in a real life > situation with 2.6.9 + patch, for 2 months now, with 1.15Tb of storage, > and I have had more than 1 drive

Re: device-mapper: : dm-linear: Device lookup failed

2005-02-02 Thread Alasdair G Kergon
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 08:12:45PM +0100, Rudolf Börner wrote: > since my Update 9.1. --> 9.2 SUSE I've get a lot of Error/Information in > <6>device-mapper: 4.1.0-ioctl (2003-12-10) initialised: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <3>device-mapper: : dm-linear: Device lookup failed > <4>device-mapper: error add

Re: Forcing a more random uuid (random seed bug)

2005-02-02 Thread Niccolo Rigacci
> I get /dev/md5, /dev/md6, /dev/md7 > and /dev/md8 all with the same UUID! It seems that there is a bug in mdadm: when generating the UUID for a volume, the random() function is called, but the random sequence is never initialized. The result is that every volume created with mdadm has an uuid