From: Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc@linuxweasel.com>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mdadm and raid5 hot-rebuild problem on 2.5.67
Date: 16 Apr 2003 17:52:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1050540735.12119.50.camel@gregdell> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16029.62844.25748.442530@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au>
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On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 17:29, Neil Brown wrote:
> On Wednesday April 16, neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au wrote:
> >
> > Ok, this is wrong. Bigtime.
> > The spare has taken up postion 0 instead of 2.
> >
> > I cannot immediately see what would be causing this. The code looks
> > right, but obviously isn't. I'll try to see if I can reproduce it
> > tomorrow.
> >
>
> I haven't managed to reproduce it, but I'm faily sure that I know what
> was happening. I'll try to figure out the best way to fix it.
>
> In the mean time, you can avoid the problem by not using raidstart at
> all.
> Reboot your machine, with raidstart disabled (e.g. move /etc/raidtab
> out of the way) and then us mdadm to start the array. I think you
> will need "mdadm --assemble --force" to start it.
On a related note, I've recently hacked on rc.sysinit so that it
recognizes /etc/mdadm.conf, in addition to /etc/raidtab. I've sent to
patch upstream to my vendor of Linux, you can find it at
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=88785
Greg
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-17 0:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-16 23:53 mdadm and raid5 hot-rebuild problem on 2.5.67 Stef Telford
2003-04-16 1:48 ` Neil Brown
2003-04-17 1:51 ` Stef Telford
2003-04-16 1:57 ` Neil Brown
2003-04-16 2:13 ` Stef Telford
2003-04-16 5:39 ` Neil Brown
2003-04-17 0:29 ` Neil Brown
2003-04-17 0:52 ` Gregory Leblanc [this message]
2003-04-17 23:43 ` Stef Telford
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