RE: [Iscsitarget-devel] [BUG] Raid1/5 over iSCSI trouble

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BERTRAND Joël wrote:
> 
> Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
> > BERTRAND Joël wrote:
> >> BERTRAND Joël wrote:
> >>> Bill Davidsen wrote:
> >>>> Dan Williams wrote:
> >>>>> On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 01:04 -0700, BERTRAND Joël wrote:
> >>>>>  
> >>>>>>         I run for 12 hours some dd's (read and write in nullio)
> >>>>>> between
> >>>>>> initiator and target without any disconnection. Thus 
> >> iSCSI code seems
> >>>>>> to
> >>>>>> be robust. Both initiator and target are alone on a 
> >> single gigabit
> >>>>>> ethernet link (without any switch). I'm investigating...
> >>>>>>     
> >>>>> Can you reproduce on 2.6.22?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Also, I do not think this is the cause of your failure, 
> >> but you have
> >>>>> CONFIG_DMA_ENGINE=y in your config.  Setting this to 'n' 
> >> will compile
> >>>>> out the unneeded checks for offload engines in async_memcpy and
> >>>>> async_xor.
> >>>> Given that offload engines are far less tested code, I 
> >> think this is a 
> >>>> very good thing to try!
> >>>     I'm trying wihtout CONFIG_DMA_ENGINE=y. istd1 only uses 
> >> 40% of one 
> >>> CPU when I rebuild my raid1 array. 1% of this array was now 
> >>> resynchronized without any hang.
> >>>
> >>> Root gershwin:[/usr/scripts] > cat /proc/mdstat
> >>> Personalities : [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4]
> >>> md7 : active raid1 sdi1[2] md_d0p1[0]
> >>>       1464725632 blocks [2/1] [U_]
> >>>       [>....................]  recovery =  1.0% 
> >> (15705536/1464725632) 
> >>> finish=1103.9min speed=21875K/sec
> >> 	Same result...
> >>
> >> connection2:0: iscsi: detected conn error (1011)
> >>  
> >>           session2: iscsi: session recovery timed out 
> after 120 secs
> >> sd 4:0:0:0: scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery
> >> sd 4:0:0:0: scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery
> >> sd 4:0:0:0: scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery
> >> sd 4:0:0:0: scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery
> >> sd 4:0:0:0: scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery
> >> sd 4:0:0:0: scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery
> >> sd 4:0:0:0: scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery
> > 
> > I am unsure why you would want to setup an iSCSI RAID1, but before
> > doing so I would try to verify that each independant iSCSI session
> > is bullet proof.
> 
> 	I use one and only one iSCSI session. Raid1 array is 
> built between a 
> local and iSCSI volume.

Oh, in that case you will be much better served with DRBD, which
would provide you with what you want without creating a Frankenstein
setup...

-Ross

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