[resending. my mail service was down for more than a week and this
message didn't get delivered.]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Anyway, what's annoying is that I can't figure out how to bring the
> > drive back on line without resetting the box. It's in a hot-swap
enclosure,
> > but power cycling
Hi,
i'm using 2.6.21-rc5-git9 +
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/agk/patches/2.6/editing/dm-merge-max_hw_sector.patch
( i've been testing with and without it, and first encountered it on
2.6.18-debian )
I've setup a raid1 array md1 (it was created in a degraded mode using
the debi
On Monday April 2, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Neil's post here suggests either this is all normal or I'm seriously up the
> creek.
> http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-raid@vger.kernel.org/msg07349.html
>
> My questions:
>
> 1. Should I be worried or is this normal? If so can you explain
Hello, I'm new to the dm-devel mail list, so hopefully my question won't
get flamed too badly :)
I need some help with a setup issue in dmraid, specifically raid5. I'm
trying to use Heinz Mauelshagen's patch for dmraid45 and having problems
getting it to compile in the kernel (or as a module). It'
Hi,
I've relatively recently started using md having had some bad experiences
with hardware raid controllers. I've had some really good experiences
(stepwise upgrading a 800GB raid5 array to 1.5TB one by exchanging disks
and using mdadm --grow), but am in the middle of a more worrying one. I hav
On 4/2/07, Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 3/30/07, Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Please see bellow.
>
> On 8/28/06, Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Sunday August 13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > well ... me again
> > >
> > > Following your advice
On Monday April 2, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> What guarantees that *rdev is still valid when delayed_delete() runs?
Because that is how kobjects and krefs work. There is an embedded
refcount etc etc..
>
> And what guarantees that the md module hasn't been rmmodded when
> delayed_delete() tri
On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 17:44:17 +1000 NeilBrown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> (This patch should go in 2.6.21 as it fixes a recent regression - NB)
>
> A device can be removed from an md array via e.g.
> echo remove > /sys/block/md3/md/dev-sde/state
>
> This will try to remove the 'dev-sde' subtree
(This patch should go in 2.6.21 as it fixes a recent regression - NB)
A device can be removed from an md array via e.g.
echo remove > /sys/block/md3/md/dev-sde/state
This will try to remove the 'dev-sde' subtree which will deadlock
since
commit e7b0d26a86943370c04d6833c6edba2a72a6e240
With t
