Re: raid6 - data integrity issue - data mis-compare on rebuilding RAID 6 - with 100 Mb resync speed.

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On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 05:41:12PM +0530, Manibalan P wrote:
> Hi Neil,
> 
> Also, I found the data corruption issue on RHEL 6.5.
> 

Did you file a bug about the corruption to redhat bugzilla?

-- Pasi

> For your kind attention, I up-ported the md code [raid5.c + raid5.h]
> from FC11 kernel to CentOS 6.4, and there is no mis-compare with the
> up-ported code.
> 
> Thanks,
> Manibalan.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Manibalan P 
> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 6:46 PM
> To: 'linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Cc: neilb@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: raid6 - data integrity issue - data mis-compare on
> rebuilding RAID 6 - with 100 Mb resync speed.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have performed the following tests to narrow down the integrity issue.
> 
> 1. RAID 6, single drive failure - NO ISSUE
> 	a. Running IO
> 	b. mdadm set faulty and remove a drive
> 	c. mdadm add the drive back
>  There is no mis-compare happen in this path.
> 
> 2. RAID 6, two drive failure - write during Degrade and verify after
> rebuild 
> 	a. remove two drives, to make the RAID array degraded.
> 	b. now run write IO write cycle, wait till the write cycle
> completes
> 	c. insert the drives back one by one, and wait till the re-build
> completes and a RAID array become optimal.
> 	d. now perform the verification cycle.
> There is no mis-compare happened in this path also.
> 
> During All my test, the sync_Speed_max and min is set to 100Mb
> 
> So, as you referred in your previous mail, the corruption might be
> happening only during resync and IO happens in parallel.
> 
> Also, I tested with upstream 2.6.32 kernel from git:
> "http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/ -
> tags/v2.6.32"
> 	And I am facing mis-compare issue in this kernel as well.  on
> RAID 6, two drive failure with high sync_speed.
> 
> Thanks,
> Manibalan.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NeilBrown [mailto:neilb@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2014 11:49 AM
> To: Manibalan P
> Cc: linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: raid6 - data integrity issue - data mis-compare on
> rebuilding RAID 6 - with 100 Mb resync speed.
> 
> On Wed, 12 Mar 2014 13:09:28 +0530 "Manibalan P"
> <pmanibalan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
> > >
> > >Was the array fully synced before you started the test?
> > 
> > Yes , IO is started, only after the re-sync is completed.
> >  And to add more info,
> >              I am facing this mis-compare only with high resync speed 
> > (30M to 100M), I ran the same test with resync speed min -10M and max
> > - 30M, without any issue. So the  issue has relationship with 
> > sync_speed_max / min.
> 
> So presumably it is an interaction between recovery and IO.  Maybe if we
> write to a stripe that is being recoverred, or recover a stripe that is
> being written to, then something gets confused.
> 
> I'll have a look to see what I can find.
> 
> Thanks,
> NeilBrown
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