Re: trouble with mounting a 1.5 TB raid6 volume in 2.6.19-rc5-mm1

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From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Date: Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 08:43:54PM +1100
> On Monday November 13, neilb@suse.de wrote:
> > 
> > Can you try reverting this patch (patch -p1 -R) ?
> > 
> 
> Yes, I'm confident that reverting that patch will fix your problem.
> I actually found a number of errors while tracking this down :-(

Oops. Do you have some kind of test-suite to run on md-devices before
releasing a patch? I didn't think my hardware was that exotic.

I had a scary moment just now, since 2.6.19-rc5-mm1 without your patch
wanted to fsck the volume, and started repairing errors which didn't
exist on disk. Luckily, it stopped before inode 64, and I was able to
fsck the volume on an earlier kernel without apparent damage.

Still, a test suite seems like a good idea. Also, getting Andrew to
either add this as a hot-fix or release -mm2 would be a good idea,
IMVHO.


> The following patch makes everything happy for me, but I'll be
> revising it and splitting it up before submitting it (Andrew: please
> don't just grab it from here :-)

It works for me. I can mount the partition, read it, create files, all
is OK.

> Thanks again for the report.

No problem - I'm glad to be able to do something back for all your (yes,
that's you, kernel developers) hard work. If this had actually corrupted
my hdtv streams collection, I would have been a trifle less
enthousiastic, of course.

Kind regards,
Jurriaan
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