Re: raidreconf / growing raid 5 doesn't seem to work anymore

2005-04-03 Thread David Greaves
Just to re-iterate for the googlers... EVMS has an alternative raid5 grow solution that is active, maintained and apparently works (ie someone who knows the code actually cares if it fails!!!) It does require a migration to EVMS and it has limitations which prevented me from using it when I need

raidreconf / growing raid 5 doesn't seem to work anymore

2005-04-03 Thread Mike Hardy
Hello all - This is more of a cautionary tale than anything, as I have not attempted to determine the root cause or anything, but I have been able to add a disk to a raid5 array using raidreconf in the past and my last attempt looked like it worked but still scrambled the filesystem. So, if you'

interesting failure scenario

2005-04-03 Thread Michael Tokarev
I just come across an interesting situation, here's the scenario. 0. Have a RAID1 array composed of two components, d1 and d2. The array was running, clean, event counter was 10. 1. d1 failed (eg, hotplug-removed). 2. on d2's superblock we now have event=11, and d1 is marked as failed. 3. the

RE: Adaptec 3210S Problems

2005-04-03 Thread Guy
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:linux-raid- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brett I. Holcomb > Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2005 10:48 AM > To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org > Subject: RE: Adaptec 3210S Problems > > Yes, sorry, there is a terminator block on the end of the

Re: once again raid5

2005-04-03 Thread Ronny Plattner
Hi ! Neil Brown schrieb: Your best bet would be: mdadm --create /dev/md2 --level 5 -n 4 /dev/hda1 /dev/hdk1 missing /dev/hdo1 and hope that the data you find on md2 isn't too corrupted. You might be lucky, but I'm not holding my breath - sorry. This worked AFAIS but there are troubles with the