On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek <konrad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Why is the new disk showing up as `sdc' instead of `sdb' and why is > > I can't comment on the naming - but in regards to the write cache - that is > the information the kernel gets from the device using SCSI commands (to be > exact it MODE_SENSE). The device has it disabled. You can fiddle with MODE_SELECT > command if you want to enable it - but keep in mind that when you have a RAID > it is advised to turn cache off. Unless your computer has a UPS connected so that > you can flush the data immediately and turn off caching. > >> the write cache disabled? >> >> >> Of course similar two lines below showing up only in dmesg and not in >> messages file >> >> >> [ 2465.456628] ata4: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x150000 >> action 0xe frozen >> [ 2465.543901] ata4: SError: { PHYRdyChg CommWake Dispar } >> [ 2465.606247] ata4: hard resetting link >> > That is OK. >> >> Also, how can I find out if/when the raid1 sync completed? I do not >> follow what the dmsetup status is saying > > cat /proc/dmstatus should give you some details. ~# cat /proc/dmstatus cat: /proc/dmstatus: No such file or directory > >> >> >> ~$ sudo dmsetup status >> nvidia_eeffhbef5: 0 6458067 linear >> nvidia_eeffhbef1: 0 149838192 linear >> nvidia_eeffhbef: 0 156301486 mirror 2 8:0 8:16 1183/1193 1 AD 1 core > > That is just the static mapping it has setup. Where it says that disks 8:0 and 8:16 > are part of the of your RAID. Do a 'ls /dev/ | grep 8' and you will see what > the 8:0, and 8:16 correspond to. iqbala@ftp0:~$ ls -al /dev/ | awk '$5 ~ /8/ {print}' drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12680 2009-03-05 11:30 char drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 180 2009-03-05 11:29 input crw------- 1 root root 108, 0 2009-03-04 11:58 ppp brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 2009-03-05 11:29 sda brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 2009-03-05 11:29 sda1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 2 2009-03-05 11:29 sda2 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 5 2009-03-05 11:29 sda5 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 16 2009-03-05 11:29 sdb brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 17 2009-03-05 11:29 sdb1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 18 2009-03-05 11:29 sdb2 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 21 2009-03-05 11:29 sdb5 I see 8:0 is sda and 8:16 is sbd, cool! The dmsetup status has a little different output now iqbala@ftp0:~$ sudo dmsetup status nvidia_eeffhbef5: 0 6458067 linear nvidia_eeffhbef1: 0 149838192 linear nvidia_eeffhbef: 0 156301486 mirror 2 8:0 8:16 1193/1193 1 AA 1 core It was '1183/1193 1 AD 1 core' and now '1193/1193 1 AA 1 core' What are the differences? Is there some doc where I can read more about this? > >> >> >> -- >> Asif Iqbal >> PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu >> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. >> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? >> >> -- >> dm-devel mailing list >> dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel > > -- > dm-devel mailing list > dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel > -- Asif Iqbal PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel