From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Davidsen Subject: Re: Another report of a raid6 array being maintaind by _raid5 in ps . Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 09:45:46 -0400 Message-ID: <4602888A.1090704@tmr.com> References: <17922.5241.61746.282156@notabene.brown> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <17922.5241.61746.282156@notabene.brown> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Neil Brown Cc: "Mr. James W. Laferriere" , linux-raid maillist List-Id: linux-raid.ids Neil Brown wrote: > On Wednesday March 21, babydr@baby-dragons.com wrote: > >> Hello Neil , Someone else reported this before . But I'd thought it >> was under a older kernel than 2.6.21-rc4 . Hth , JimL >> >> root 2936 0.0 0.0 2948 1760 tts/0 Ss 04:30 0:00 -bash >> root 2965 0.3 0.0 0 0 ? S< 04:34 0:00 [md3_raid5] >> root 2977 0.0 0.0 2380 912 tts/0 R+ 04:38 0:00 ps -auxww >> >> root@(none):~# uname -a >> Linux (none) 2.6.21-rc4 #2 SMP Thu Mar 22 04:19:35 UTC 2007 i686 pentium4 i386 GNU/Linux >> >> root@(none):~# cat /proc/mdstat >> Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid10] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [multipath] >> md3 : active raid6 sdc1[0] sdh1[5] sdg1[4] sdf1[3] sde1[2] sdd1[1] >> 573905664 blocks super 1.2 level 6, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [6/6] [UUUUUU] >> bitmap: 0/137 pages [0KB], 512KB chunk >> > > It's just a name.... > Given that the module is raid456.ko, how about this? > > There are lots of error message that say 'raid5' too.... > Yes, and lots of log watching programs which know about them. I bet they don't know raid456, though, and will either miss them or report them as "unknown error" on the scan. Do we really need a cosmetic change which will require a functional change with no gain in function? > NeilBrown > > Signed-off-by: Neil Brown > > ### Diffstat output > ./drivers/md/raid5.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff .prev/drivers/md/raid5.c ./drivers/md/raid5.c > --- .prev/drivers/md/raid5.c 2007-03-13 10:38:33.000000000 +1100 > +++ ./drivers/md/raid5.c 2007-03-22 16:28:37.000000000 +1100 > @@ -4209,7 +4209,7 @@ static int run(mddev_t *mddev) > } > > { > - mddev->thread = md_register_thread(raid5d, mddev, "%s_raid5"); > + mddev->thread = md_register_thread(raid5d, mddev, "%s_raid456"); > if (!mddev->thread) { > printk(KERN_ERR > "raid5: couldn't allocate thread for %s\n", > - > 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 > > -- bill davidsen CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979