From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: raid6 raidreconf progress
Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 20:18:51 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c78trb$4gj$1@terminus.zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4087DC41.8060206@wasp.net.au
Followup to: <4087DC41.8060206@wasp.net.au>
By author: Brad Campbell <brad@wasp.net.au>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.raid
>
> Brad Campbell wrote:
> > G'day all,
> >
> > I'm currently adding raid6 support to raidreconf, and as part of my
> > testing I'm doing all sorts of
> > nasty things to a 200GB usb2 hard disk.
>
> Ok, false alarm (sort of, I'm still interested in what happens with odd device sizes), but it was a
> thinko in the raid6 parity block locator.
In the kernel or in raidreconf?
> We have liftoff. It has now performed 2 raid5->raid6 and back again cycles.
> I test it by using dd to dump 400mb of /dev/urandom to the device and then running md5sum on it, so
> far we have 4 complete cycles to differing devices in different orders and different sizes (As long
> as it stays above 400MB of course) and it's all good.
> Hope to have something cleaned up and presentable in the near future.
Kick ass.
-hpa
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-04 20:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-22 12:57 raid6 creation with mdadm Brad Campbell
2004-04-22 14:52 ` raid6 raidreconf progress Brad Campbell
2004-05-04 20:18 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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