From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262561AbVAPSeJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Jan 2005 13:34:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262562AbVAPSeJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Jan 2005 13:34:09 -0500 Received: from bgo1smout1.broadpark.no ([217.13.4.94]:51374 "EHLO bgo1smout1.broadpark.no") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262561AbVAPSeD (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Jan 2005 13:34:03 -0500 Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 19:33:56 +0100 From: Kristian Eide Subject: Re: raid5 crash (possible VM problem???) In-reply-to: <16857.54682.183762.561368@cse.unsw.edu.au> To: Neil Brown Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-id: <200501161933.59701.kreide@online.no> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/signed; boundary=nextPart1302866.K5r9HLpeFn; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <200412222304.36585.kreide@online.no> <200412232045.26137.kreide@online.no> <16857.54682.183762.561368@cse.unsw.edu.au> User-Agent: KMail/1.7.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --nextPart1302866.K5r9HLpeFn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline > You could try this patch. It might hide the real problem, or it might > cause it to manifest in some other way. I've applied the patch, but I now get another error; this might not be rela= ted=20 to raid5, however, I have tested the individual SATA disks without getting= =20 any errors. This only happens when combining them into a raid5 array (other= =20 raid levels not tested). ReiserFS: md3: journal params: device md3, size 8192, journal first block 1= 8,=20 max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30 ReiserFS: md3: checking transaction log (md3) ReiserFS: md3: Using r5 hash to sort names attempt to access beyond end of device md3: rw=3D0, want=3D18446744063991695384, limit=3D1465175040 attempt to access beyond end of device md3: rw=3D0, want=3D18446744062355374704, limit=3D1465175040 attempt to access beyond end of device md3: rw=3D0, want=3D4913837584, limit=3D1465175040 attempt to access beyond end of device md3: rw=3D0, want=3D18446744071656162744, limit=3D1465175040 I have 4 250GB SATA disk combined into one raid5 volume (kernel 2.6.10), an= d=20 this error happens after copying a few gigabytes of data into the volume an= d=20 then trying to read them back. =2D-=20 Kristian --nextPart1302866.K5r9HLpeFn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBB6rOXRBuET7ul/ccRAgSFAJ45ZChXxUGMDpCIi/uww8HaKnxcFwCgr4FI BDSvZwlgC0/iAGBOIVkRBAk= =db1K -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1302866.K5r9HLpeFn--