Ok, so I will apply the patch. Thank you! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Neil Brown" <neilb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Doug Ledford" <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Agustín Ciciliani" <agustin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Marcelo Tosatti" <marcelo.tosatti@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2004 8:47 PM Subject: Re: Raid 1 - md "Total Disks" question > On Thursday September 16, dledford@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 20:56, Neil Brown wrote: > > > On Monday September 13, agustin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > Hi Everybody, > > > > > > > > I was wondering if you could take a look to the following and give some advice... I just > > > > have TWO SATA WD800 disks and "mdadm" says I have "three" and one of > > > > them has "failed"!!! > > > > > > It's just some odd accounting in the kernel. Don't worry about it. > > > > It is just some odd accounting stuff, but it's hardly something I would > > say "don't worry about it". I had to chase a similar looking problem > > down in our RHEL3 product line. In fact, it was raid1 where I was > > seeing this problem. I've attached the email I sent about the problem > > to the internal kernel people, the patch I originally sent in for it, > > and the update patch that catches a couple spots I originally missed in > > my first patch (apologies if my mailer horks this up, haven't tried to > > send sent mail in exactly the way I'm trying it now). > > Well, the accounting and the locking are really to separate issues, > but your patch looks good, thanks. > > NeilBrown > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
