On Sunday February 27, webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hello. > > Just for your information: There is a deadlock in the following situation: > > MD2 is Raid 0 with 3 disks. sda1 sdb1 sdc1 > MD3 is Raid 0 with 3 disks. sdd1 sde1 sdf1 > MD4 is Raid 1 with 2 disks. MD2 and MD3!! > > If a disk in MD2 fails, MD2 completely fails. MD4 SHOULD now mark disk 1 (MD2) as faulty but does > not. Instead there is a dead-lock. "sync" hangs as well. Had to > reboot. Sorry for the delay in replying. I cannot reproduce this. disk '1' of md4 (which is md2) gets moved to position '2' and marked faulty. You are running a pure 2.6.10 kernel are you? no patches at all? Any other details you could provide? > > I am now using the native Raid 10. Is this stable enough? Should be.... It hasn't had as much testing as raid1, but I'm glad you are helping out by giving it a bit more.... NeilBrown > > Best regards, > Chris - RapidTec - 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