From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brad Campbell Subject: Re: 2.6.11-rc4 md loops on missing drives Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 08:32:38 +0400 Message-ID: <42196466.6090607@wasp.net.au> References: <4211FB59.7090104@wasp.net.au> <16914.37736.570163.440284@cse.unsw.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <16914.37736.570163.440284@cse.unsw.edu.au> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Neil Brown Cc: RAID Linux List-Id: linux-raid.ids Neil Brown wrote: > On Tuesday February 15, brad@wasp.net.au wrote: > >>G'day all, >> >>I'm not really sure how it's supposed to cope with losing more disks than planned, but filling the >>syslog with nastiness is not very polite. > > > Thanks for the bug report. There are actually a few problems relating > to resync/recovery when an array (raid 5 or 6) has lost too many > devices. > This patch should fix them. > I applied your latest array of 9 patches to a vanilla BK kernel and did very, very horrible things to it while it was rebuilding. I can confirm that it does indeed tidy up the resync issues. Ta! Brad -- "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." -- Douglas Adams