From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Agust=EDn_Ciciliani?= Subject: Re: Raid 1 - md "Total Disks" question Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 13:05:03 -0300 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <008a01c49f2b$9cb64ea0$6800a8c0@Agus> References: <019801c499ab$405f20d0$6800a8c0@Agus><16710.16837.832998.503557@cse.unsw.edu.au><1095374065.4196.22.camel@compaq.xsintricity.com> <16718.6808.294471.886458@cse.unsw.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: To: dledford@redhat.com Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Ok, so I will apply the patch. Thank you! ----- Original Message -----=20 =46rom: "Neil Brown" To: "Doug Ledford" Cc: "Agust=EDn Ciciliani" ; ; "Marcelo Tosatti" Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2004 8:47 PM Subject: Re: Raid 1 - md "Total Disks" question > On Thursday September 16, dledford@redhat.com wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 20:56, Neil Brown wrote: > > > On Monday September 13, agustin@maderonet.net.ar wrote: > > > > Hi Everybody, > > > > > > > > I was wondering if you could take a look to the following and g= ive some advice... I just > > > > have TWO SATA WD800 disks and "mdadm" says I have "three" and o= ne of > > > > them has "failed"!!! > > > > > > It's just some odd accounting in the kernel. Don't worry about i= t. > > > > It is just some odd accounting stuff, but it's hardly something I w= ould > > say "don't worry about it". I had to chase a similar looking probl= em > > down in our RHEL3 product line. In fact, it was raid1 where I was > > seeing this problem. I've attached the email I sent about the prob= lem > > to the internal kernel people, the patch I originally sent in for i= t, > > and the update patch that catches a couple spots I originally misse= d in > > my first patch (apologies if my mailer horks this up, haven't tried= to > > send sent mail in exactly the way I'm trying it now). > > Well, the accounting and the locking are really to separate issues, > but your patch looks good, thanks. > > NeilBrown > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid"= in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html