From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Molle Bestefich Subject: Re: MD bug or me being stupid? Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 20:10:00 +0200 Message-ID: <62b0912f05051511107a0c4e0@mail.gmail.com> References: <62b0912f0504220345349335f9@mail.gmail.com> <62b0912f050512015585a6ba5@mail.gmail.com> <17028.5921.815691.401690@cse.unsw.edu.au> Reply-To: Molle Bestefich Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-Reply-To: <17028.5921.815691.401690@cse.unsw.edu.au> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Neil Brown Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Neil Brown wrote: > Molle Bestefich wrote: > > Ping!... > > Neil, just wondering, any comments regarding this particular endless loop in MD? > > (Anything I can test or some such?) > > Thanks for the ping, things sometimes get lost in the noise.... Thanks for taking a look at it! > This sounds a bit like the problem that is addressed by > md-make-raid5-and-raid6-robust-against-failure-during-recovery.patch > in the current -mm patches (look in the brokenout directory). > > This would only happen if you have multiple failed devices. So maybe > while the rebuild was happening, another device failed (which seems to > happen more and more as device sizes are increasing and reliability is > going the other way). > > Could this (another drive failure) be the case? Sounds correct! There was both a real disk failure and a cable failure involved (first message in this thread has details). Apologies for bringing up already fixed bugs.