On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 3:52 PM, tirumalareddy marri <tirumalareddymarri@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am able to create a disk size of 40MB and mount it(mkfs.ext3 -b 4096 /dev/md0 10000). I was able to copy files to this mounted disk and read them back. If I increased the size more than 40MB file system if failing to mount. > Is it possible that data I have read/write was in page cache and never really written to Hard Disks ? What does the corruption look like? Does it seem to be wrong data or stale data? > Is it safe to say RAID-5 is partially working ? Without more information this sounds like the hw-xor driver is broken. What kernel version are you developing against? You may want to take a look at the dmatest client in async_tx/next [1]. It currently only supports copy tests, but should exercise your driver's descriptor processing routines. When I tracked down bugs in iop-adma I used raid5 as the test client and modified the kernel to do data verification after each calculation in the ops_complete_* routines. This requires userspace to use a predictable data pattern when writing to the array. -- Dan [1] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/djbw/async_tx.git;a=shortlog;h=next -- 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
