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From: Tim Moore <linux-raid@nsr500.net>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is there any way to delay reconstruction
Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 08:09:05 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42949511.3@nsr500.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0505250811520.16854@desktop.agenda.si>

Recompile with piix in the kernel.

danci@agenda.si wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have 800+ machines all using Linux SW RAID-1. Recent kernels use modules 
> for IDE (piix) and before those modules are loaded, I cannot turn on DMA. 
> So I do this using hdparm from a rc.boot script. 
> 
> The problem is that usually fails with 'hdX: lost interrupt' if the disks 
> are busy due to RAID reconstruction - which happens a lot as some of the 
> 800+ machines get rebooted for various reasons...
> 
> Of course I could be running without DMA (that's what I did on most 
> critical machines), but that is painfully slow and it takes forever just 
> to finish RAID reconstruction.
> 
> So I need to know if there is any way (kernel parameter would be ideal) to 
> delay reconstruction for X seconds/minutes?
> 
> Any other suggestions to deal with the problem?
> 
>  Thanks, Danilo
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-05-25 15:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-25  6:16 Is there any way to delay reconstruction danci
2005-05-25  6:26 ` Catalin(ux aka Dino) BOIE
2005-05-25  8:25   ` danci
2005-05-25 15:12     ` Mike Hardy
2005-05-26  6:48       ` danci
2005-05-25 15:09 ` Tim Moore [this message]
2005-05-26  6:41   ` danci
2005-05-25 15:25 ` Derek Piper
2005-05-25 16:58   ` Mike Hardy
2005-05-26  6:59   ` danci
2005-05-26 16:07     ` Mike Hardy

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