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From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
To: Piergiorgio Sartor <piergiorgio.sartor@nexgo.de>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: User space RAID-6 access
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 07:52:59 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110201075259.4beaf501@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110131202054.GA15712@lazy.lzy>

On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 21:20:55 +0100 Piergiorgio Sartor
<piergiorgio.sartor@nexgo.de> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> some times ago, I think was Neil, it was mentioned
> about the possibility to access consistently a RAID-6
> array from user space, in order to be able to perform
> some checks, like the notorius "which HDD has wrong data".
> 
> Is there any reference or documentation or source code
> which can be taken as example for such a case?
> 

Look in the mdadm source code, particularly at restripe.c

Also
   make test_stripe

make a program the the test suite uses for verify data correctness.

That should give you enough hints to get you started.

NeilBrown


  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-31 20:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-31 20:20 User space RAID-6 access Piergiorgio Sartor
2011-01-31 20:52 ` NeilBrown [this message]
2011-02-01 19:21   ` Piergiorgio Sartor
2011-02-01 20:14     ` John Robinson
2011-02-01 20:18     ` NeilBrown
2011-02-01 21:00       ` Piergiorgio Sartor
2011-02-05 17:33   ` Piergiorgio Sartor
2011-02-05 20:58     ` NeilBrown
2011-02-07 22:24       ` [PATCH] " Piergiorgio Sartor
2011-02-07 22:49         ` NeilBrown
2011-02-09 18:47           ` Piergiorgio Sartor
2011-02-17  6:23             ` NeilBrown
2011-02-17 20:01               ` Piergiorgio Sartor
2011-02-18 23:02               ` Piergiorgio Sartor

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