Neil Brown wrote: > Molle Bestefich wrote: > > Ping!... > > Neil, just wondering, any comments regarding this particular endless loop in MD? > > (Anything I can test or some such?) > > Thanks for the ping, things sometimes get lost in the noise.... Thanks for taking a look at it! > This sounds a bit like the problem that is addressed by > md-make-raid5-and-raid6-robust-against-failure-during-recovery.patch > in the current -mm patches (look in the brokenout directory). > > This would only happen if you have multiple failed devices. So maybe > while the rebuild was happening, another device failed (which seems to > happen more and more as device sizes are increasing and reliability is > going the other way). > > Could this (another drive failure) be the case? Sounds correct! There was both a real disk failure and a cable failure involved (first message in this thread has details). Apologies for bringing up already fixed bugs. - 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
