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From: joystick <joystick@shiftmail.org>
To: Brad Campbell <lists2009@fnarfbargle.com>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>, Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>,
	linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: is "replaceable" in 3.2 considered stable
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2012 10:55:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <509A3029.4050402@shiftmail.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5099BC6B.7030500@fnarfbargle.com>

On 11/07/12 02:42, Brad Campbell wrote:
> On 05/11/12 13:22, NeilBrown wrote:
>
> I have a test system set up at the moment with a RAID10 n,2 across 6 
> 1TB drives + 2 spares.
>
> I've run several hot-replace tests using 3.6.2 and found it works as 
> advertised.
>
> I also have two drives with hard write errors (excellent for failure 
> testing), and trying to replace a drive with one that contains a write 
> error fails the replace as you would expect.

Thanks for your testing Brad

we still need someone to test the other case, a more common scenario I'd 
say: the disk to be replaced fails during hot-replace

> The test machine is on UPS, so I have not done any testing that 
> involves reboots during a re-sync.

And also this one...
Best simulation would be unpulling the plug so that disks do not flush
if you have still time for us, of course :-)

Thank you

  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-07  9:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-05  4:51 is "replaceable" in 3.2 considered stable Mikael Abrahamsson
2012-11-05  5:22 ` NeilBrown
2012-11-05  8:11   ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2012-11-05  8:42     ` NeilBrown
2012-11-05  8:46       ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2012-11-05 10:53         ` NeilBrown
2012-11-05 10:56           ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2012-11-07  1:42   ` Brad Campbell
2012-11-07  9:55     ` joystick [this message]
2012-11-07 13:44       ` Brad Campbell
2012-11-07 18:08         ` joystick

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