From: Phillip Susi <phill@thesusis.net>
To: Luigi Fabio <luigi.fabio@gmail.com>
Cc: Phil Turmel <philip@turmel.org>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RAID5 failure and consequent ext4 problems
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2022 08:51:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sfkvzb3u.fsf@vps.thesusis.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJJqR21N2G5-nN_Ef+2W51FmQ40e8WbZfmrN6c42rdid2T_GoA@mail.gmail.com>
Luigi Fabio <luigi.fabio@gmail.com> writes:
> Well, there are several possible explanations, but persistence is
> desireable - so evidently enumeration occurs according to controller
> order in a repeatable way until something changes in the configuration
> - or until you change kernel, someone does something funny with a
> driver and the order changes. In 28 years of using Linux, however,
> this has happened.. rarely, save for before things were sensible WAY
> back when.
I *think* it is only because the probes are all *started* in the natural
order, so as long as the drives all respond in the same, short amount of
time, you get no surprises. If one drive decides to take a little
longer to answer today though, it can throw things off.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-13 12:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-08 14:51 RAID5 failure and consequent ext4 problems Luigi Fabio
2022-09-08 17:23 ` Phil Turmel
2022-09-09 20:32 ` Luigi Fabio
2022-09-09 21:01 ` Luigi Fabio
2022-09-09 21:48 ` Phil Turmel
2022-09-09 22:11 ` David T-G
2022-09-09 22:50 ` Luigi Fabio
2022-09-09 23:04 ` Luigi Fabio
2022-09-10 1:29 ` Luigi Fabio
2022-09-10 15:18 ` Phil Turmel
2022-09-10 19:30 ` Luigi Fabio
2022-09-10 19:55 ` Luigi Fabio
2022-09-10 20:12 ` Luigi Fabio
2022-09-10 20:15 ` Phil Turmel
2022-09-10 20:14 ` Phil Turmel
2022-09-10 20:17 ` Phil Turmel
2022-09-10 20:24 ` Luigi Fabio
2022-09-10 20:54 ` Luigi Fabio
2022-09-12 19:09 ` Phillip Susi
2022-09-13 3:58 ` Luigi Fabio
2022-09-13 12:47 ` Phillip Susi
2022-09-12 19:06 ` Phillip Susi
2022-09-13 4:02 ` Luigi Fabio
2022-09-13 12:51 ` Phillip Susi [this message]
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