Re: Scrubbing "check" not working for RAID10 in 3.10-rc1+

[NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>]

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On Tue, 25 Jun 2013 01:19:20 -0500 Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
wrote:

> Neil,
> 
> I've noticed that the "check" operation no longer works for RAID10.  It
> works just fine for the other RAIDs.  The ("data-check") sync_thread
> kicks off just fine, sync_request_write() is called, but it never gets
> past:
>         if (i == conf->copies)
>                 goto done;
> The test I am performing creates a RAID array, waits for it to sync,
> shuts it down, writes random data to one of the devices, assembles the
> array, and then runs a "check" - there should be descrepancies.  The
> descrepancies are found and recorded in resync_mismatches for all RAIDs
> <= 3.9 and only for non-RAID10 3.10-rc1+.

I just tried on 3.10-rc5+ and it works as expected.
If you can provide a test script that fails, I'll look into it.

> 
> I'm sorry I haven't tracked it down yet and I'm going to be on vacation
> starting tomorrow with only intermittent access to e-mail.  Sorry to
> leave you hanging.

Go enjoy your vacation and don't worry about me hanging :-)

> 
> Thanks,
>  brassow
> 
> P.S.  This also reminded me of a patch I have concerning tracking the
> last sync action for the purpose of making mismatch_count more useful.
> I'll post that before leaving.
> 

Thanks.

NeilBrown

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