Re: md device naming question

2007-09-24 Thread Michal Soltys
Nix wrote: On 19 Sep 2007, maximilian attems said: i presume it may also be /sys/block/mdNN ? That's it, e.g. /sys/block/md0. Notable subdirectories include holders/ (block devices within the array, more than one if e.g. LVM is in use), Also, if you mount the raid as a partitionable one,

Re[2]: raid5 - which disk failed ?

2007-09-24 Thread Rainer Fuegenstein
NB> Or maybe the drive is failing, but that is badly confusing the NB> controller, with the same result. NB> Is it always hde that is reporting errors? for now - yes; but a few months ago for a short period of time hdg and hdh also have been reported with errors, but this went away quickly and n

[GIT PULL] async-tx/md-accel fixes and documentation for 2.6.23

2007-09-24 Thread Dan Williams
Linus, please pull from: git://lost.foo-projects.org/~dwillia2/git/iop async-tx-fixes-for-linus to receive: Dan Williams (3): async_tx: usage documentation and developer notes (v2) async_tx: fix dma_wait_for_async_tx raid5: fix 2 bugs in ops_complete_biofill The raid5

Re: Speaking of network disks (was: Re: syncing remote homes.)

2007-09-24 Thread Bill Davidsen
Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote: Hello Bill & all , Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sat, 22 Sep 2007 09:41:40 -0400 , wrote: My only "advice" is to try and quantify the data volume and look at nbd vs. iSCSI to provide the mirror if you go that way. You mentioned nbd as a transport f

Re: md device naming question

2007-09-24 Thread Nix
On 19 Sep 2007, maximilian attems said: > hello, > > working on initramfs i'd be curious to know what the /sys/block > entry of a /dev/md/NN device is. have a user request to support > it and no handy box using it. > > i presume it may also be /sys/block/mdNN ? That's it, e.g. /sys/block/md0. Not