From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Creating RAID1 with bitmap fails
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 22:05:39 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18013.26771.126894.425898@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: message from Jan Engelhardt on Wednesday May 30
On Wednesday May 30, jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> the following command strangely gives -EIO ...
> 12:27 sun:~ # mdadm -C /dev/md4 -l 1 -n 2 -e 1.0 -b internal /dev/ram0
> missing
>
> md: md4: raid array is not clean -- starting background reconstruction
> md4: failed to create bitmap (-5)
> md: pers->run() failed ...
> mdadm: RUN_ARRAY failed: Input/output error
> mdadm: stopped /dev/md4
>
> Leaving out -b internal creates the array. /dev/ram0 or /dev/sda5 - EIO
> happens on both. (But the disk is fine, like ram0)
> Where could I start looking?
>
> Linux sun 2.6.21-1.3149.al3.8smp #3 SMP Wed May 30 09:43:00 CEST 2007
> sparc64 sparc64 sparc64 GNU/Linux
> mdadm 2.5.4
I'm fairly sure this is fixed in 2.6.2. It is certainly worth a try.
NeilBrown
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-30 12:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-30 10:37 Creating RAID1 with bitmap fails Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-30 12:05 ` Neil Brown [this message]
2007-05-30 12:09 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-30 23:09 ` Neil Brown
2007-05-31 4:07 ` Jan Engelhardt
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