From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: chris Subject: Re: Weird Issue with raid 5+0 Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 04:17:17 -0500 Message-ID: <31e44a111002210117y7b6164ebl8383bbae14f07c87@mail.gmail.com> References: <31e44a111002202033m4a9dfba9yf8aef62b8b39933a@mail.gmail.com> <20100221164805.5bdc2d60@notabene.brown> <31e44a111002202326x407c814dsaa60e51a8a0ff049@mail.gmail.com> <20100221191640.39b68b01@notabene.brown> <20100221192107.2ede0267@notabene.brown> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20100221192107.2ede0267@notabene.brown> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Neil Brown Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Neil, The raid is being done in dom0, any idea how to set that from the kernel cmdline? - chris On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 3:21 AM, Neil Brown wrote: > On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 19:16:40 +1100 > Neil Brown wrote: > >> On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 02:26:42 -0500 >> chris wrote: >> >> > That is exactly what I didn't want to hear :( I am running >> > 2.6.26-2-xen-amd64. Are you sure its a kernel problem and nothing = to >> > do with my chunk/block sizes? If this is a bug what versions are >> > affected, I'll build a new domU kernel and see if I can get it wor= king >> > there. >> > >> > - chris >> >> I'm absolutely sure it is a kernel bug. > > though it just occurs to me that you might be able to work around it. > If, in the guest, you set "max_sectors_kb" to "4" > in /sys/block/whatever/queue, it might avoid the problem. > > NeilBrown > > >> I have no idea what version might be affected. =A0Probably all, but >> as xen isn't fully in main line it isn't easy for me to explore. >> >> I suggest you contact the xen developers (or whoever you got xen fro= m). >> I'm happy to discuss the problem with someone who knows about xen bl= ock >> device access, but I don't want to go hunting to find such a person. >> >> NeilBrown > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html