3 messages, 2 authors, 2002-05-30 · open the first message on its own page
From: VanTo <hidden>
Date: 2002-05-30 08:17:36
Hi, it's me again. I also wanted to ask if it is supported to use md array during recovery? (with some journaling fs on it). When a system fails I have to wait for about 1 hour while recovery finishes before i mount fs on md, or else it crashes. I tried many kernel versions from 2.4.16 to 2.4.19-pre8, with the same result. Thanks, VanTo
From: Danilo Godec <hidden>
Date: 2002-05-30 09:52:25
On Thu, 30 May 2002, VanTo wrote:
I also wanted to ask if it is supported to use md array during recovery? (with some journaling fs on it). When a system fails I have to wait for about 1 hour while recovery finishes before i mount fs on md, or else it crashes. I tried many kernel versions from 2.4.16 to 2.4.19-pre8, with the same result.
It *should* work. Are you using this on a SMP machine? There are some race situations causing crashes, but it should work with an UP machine. Here is a patch produced by gody@agenda.si that should help in SMP machine. It not pretty and it's not '100% right', but it seems to work. D.
From: Tomas Vanderka <hidden>
Date: 2002-05-30 16:00:53
On Thu, 30 May 2002, Danilo Godec wrote:
It *should* work. Are you using this on a SMP machine? There are some race situations causing crashes, but it should work with an UP machine.
It's an UP machine. I was asking this question because we had raid0 and it was OK. Now with raid5, machine dies after about 5-6 days. Usually kswapd oopses in some raid5 routine while manipulating with stripe list.
Here is a patch produced by gody@agenda.si that should help in SMP machine. It not pretty and it's not '100% right', but it seems to work. D.