On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, dean gaudet wrote: > On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > > Curious btw what kind of filesystem size/raid type (5, but defaults I assume, > > nothing special right? (right-symmetric vs. left-symmetric, etc?)/cache > > size/chunk size(s) are you using/testing with? > > mdadm --create --level=5 --chunk=64 -n7 -x1 /dev/md2 /dev/sd[a-h]1 > mkfs.xfs -f /dev/md2 > > otherwise defaults hmm i missed a few things, here's exactly how i created the array: mdadm --create --level=5 --chunk=64 -n7 -x1 --assume-clean /dev/md2 /dev/sd[a-h]1 it's reassembled automagically each reboot, but i do this each reboot: mkfs.xfs -f /dev/md2 mount -o noatime /dev/md2 /mnt/new ./dma_thrasher linux.tar.gz /mnt/new the --assume-clean and noatime probably make no difference though... on the bisection front it looks like it's new behaviour between 2.6.21.7 and 2.6.22.15 (stock kernels now, not debian). i've got to step out for a while, but i'll go at it again later, probably with git bisect unless someone has some cherry picked changes to suggest. -dean - 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
