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
next prev parent 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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