On Wed, 25 May 2005, Catalin(ux aka Dino) BOIE wrote: > > So I need to know if there is any way (kernel parameter would be > > ideal) to delay reconstruction for X seconds/minutes? > > > > Any other suggestions to deal with the problem? > > You can hot-remove the previous failed disk (anyway, it just started to > resync). Then, activate DMA, then hot-add the disk to array. > > Hope it helps. Thanks for the suggestion - this may be the last resort (I'd like to keep the init-scripts as clean as possible). I forgot to mention that I'm using 2.4 kernels (2.4.27 at the moment, 2.4.30 on the test machine - but it does the same thing). There is a module 'piix.o' that needs to be loaded before I can use DMA at all. It's loaded via init scripts - I will try putting it in the initrd. D. - 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
