Neil Brown wrote:
On Sunday June 18, nigel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
This from dmesg might help diagnose the problem:
Yes, that helps a lot, thanks.
The problem is that the reshape thread is restarting before the array
is fully set-up, so it ends up dereferencing a NULL pointer.
This patch should fix it.
In fact, there is a small chance that next time you boot it will work
without this patch, but the patch makes it more reliable.
There definitely should be no data-loss due to this bug.
Thanks,
NeilBrown
Neil
That seems to have fixed it. The reshape is now progressing and there are no apparent errors in dmesg. Details below.
I'll send another confirmation tomorrow when hopefully it has finished :-)
Many thanks for a great product and great support.
Nigel
[root@homepc ~]# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid5] [raid4]
md0 : active raid5 sdb1[1] sda1[0] hdc1[4](S) hdb1[2]
490223104 blocks super 0.91 level 5, 128k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/3]
[UUU_]
[=>...................] reshape = 7.9% (19588744/245111552)
finish=6.4min speed=578718K/sec
unused devices: <none>
[root@homepc ~]# mdadm --detail /dev/md0
/dev/md0:
Version : 00.91.03
Creation Time : Tue Apr 18 17:44:34 2006
Raid Level : raid5
Array Size : 490223104 (467.51 GiB 501.99 GB)
Device Size : 245111552 (233.76 GiB 250.99 GB)
Raid Devices : 4
Total Devices : 4
Preferred Minor : 0
Persistence : Superblock is persistent
Update Time : Mon Jun 19 17:38:42 2006
State : clean, degraded, recovering
Active Devices : 3
Working Devices : 4
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 1
Layout : left-symmetric
Chunk Size : 128K
Reshape Status : 8% complete
Delta Devices : 1, (3->4)
UUID : 50e3173e:b5d2bdb6:7db3576b:644409bb
Events : 0.3287189
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
0 8 1 0 active sync /dev/sda1
1 8 17 1 active sync /dev/sdb1
2 3 65 2 active sync /dev/hdb1
3 0 0 3 removed
4 22 1 - spare /dev/hdc1
[root@homepc ~]#
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