Hi Bas, On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 11:33:33AM +0100, Bas van Schaik wrote: > On 04/02/2011 08:13 AM, Piergiorgio Sartor wrote: > > Hi Bas, > > > > On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 12:02:20AM +0100, Bas van Schaik wrote: > >> Dear Piergiorgio, > >> > >> On 03/31/2011 07:53 PM, Piergiorgio Sartor wrote: > >>> please find below the promised patch for the > >>> RAID-6 check, which allows to pass only the > >>> MD device, start and length. > >>> (...) > >> Recently, I repeatedly ran into block mismatches in my 8x2TB RAID-6 > >> array (and a corrupted EXT3 filesystem). I've been playing with the idea > >> (as expressed in my posts to the linux-raid list in the last month) to > >> extend the RAID-6 check in order to report more verbose information > >> about a block mismatch, which might help to identify the failing hard drive. > >> > >> Do I understand correctly that your recent patches implement exactly > >> this feature? > > yes, that's the target. > That's great! The code can currently only be found in GIT, right? I'll you'll have to add the latest patch, from two days ago, yourself, I do not see it in git, yet. It is for mdadm 3.2, that is the development branch. > try to fetch it from there and compile the user-space binaries. Of Just unpack the tar.gz, patch it and "make raid6check". > course I'll report any suggestions back to you, including patches if I > feel confident enough... Yes please, I'll try to follow. > Thanks, Thank you, bye, pg > Bas > -- > 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 -- piergiorgio -- 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
