From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Piergiorgio Sartor Subject: Re: [PATCH] RAID-6 check standalone md device Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2011 13:03:40 +0200 Message-ID: <20110402110340.GA15507@lazy.lzy> References: <20110221204551.GA15675@lazy.lzy> <20110321140244.2314b4b4@notabene.brown> <20110321104007.GA15379@lazy.lzy> <20110321220457.29d52f5c@notabene.brown> <20110321115440.GA15635@lazy.lzy> <20110322095905.737fb1d5@notabene.brown> <20110331185346.GA5210@lazy.lzy> <4D96597C.1020103@tuxes.nl> <20110402071310.GA2640@lazy.lzy> <4D96FB7D.3060305@tuxes.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4D96FB7D.3060305@tuxes.nl> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Bas van Schaik Cc: Piergiorgio Sartor , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Hi Bas, On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 11:33:33AM +0100, Bas van Schaik wrote: > On 04/02/2011 08:13 AM, Piergiorgio Sartor wrote: > > Hi Bas, > > > > On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 12:02:20AM +0100, Bas van Schaik wrote: > >> Dear Piergiorgio, > >> > >> On 03/31/2011 07:53 PM, Piergiorgio Sartor wrote: > >>> please find below the promised patch for the > >>> RAID-6 check, which allows to pass only the > >>> MD device, start and length. > >>> (...) > >> Recently, I repeatedly ran into block mismatches in my 8x2TB RAID-6 > >> array (and a corrupted EXT3 filesystem). I've been playing with the idea > >> (as expressed in my posts to the linux-raid list in the last month) to > >> extend the RAID-6 check in order to report more verbose information > >> about a block mismatch, which might help to identify the failing hard drive. > >> > >> Do I understand correctly that your recent patches implement exactly > >> this feature? > > yes, that's the target. > That's great! The code can currently only be found in GIT, right? I'll you'll have to add the latest patch, from two days ago, yourself, I do not see it in git, yet. It is for mdadm 3.2, that is the development branch. > try to fetch it from there and compile the user-space binaries. Of Just unpack the tar.gz, patch it and "make raid6check". > course I'll report any suggestions back to you, including patches if I > feel confident enough... Yes please, I'll try to follow. > Thanks, Thank you, bye, pg > Bas > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- piergiorgio