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From: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
To: Michael Renner <michael.renner@geizhals.at>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Logging-Loop when a drive in a raid1 fails.
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 10:07:53 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41BDB049.6060201@steeleye.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41BD2E02.8020100@geizhals.at>

Michael Renner wrote:

> one of the drives in a software raid1 failed, on a machine running 
> 2.6.9-rc2, leading to this "logging-spree" (see attachment).

> Sorry if this has been fixed in the meanwhile; it's not that easy to 

It has. I sent the patch to Neil Brown a while back to fix this problem. 
I believe it made 2.6.9.

> test codepaths for failing drives with various kernels without having 
> access to special block devices which support on-demand-failing.

mdadm -f /dev/md0 <drive>

roughly approximates a drive failure

> Furthermore I'm a bit concerned about the overall quality of the md 
> support in 2.6

I don't think you should be. md in 2.6 (as of 2.6.9 or so) is as stable 
as 2.4, at least according to our stress tests.

--
Paul

  reply	other threads:[~2004-12-13 15:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-13  5:52 Logging-Loop when a drive in a raid1 fails Michael Renner
2004-12-13 15:07 ` Paul Clements [this message]
2004-12-14 10:19   ` Michael Renner
2004-12-14 15:19     ` Paul Clements

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