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Date:      Fri, 20 May 2005 16:10:50 -0700
From:      Joe Rhett <jrhett@meer.net>
To:        =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren?= Schmidt <sos@DeepCore.dk>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: drive failure during rebuild causes page fault
Message-ID:  <20050520231050.GA86907@meer.net>
In-Reply-To: <F1F4AB07-A2C3-4EC9-8D4E-BDE0AF4BA409@DeepCore.dk>
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On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 08:21:13AM +0200, Søren Schmidt wrote:
> On 19/05/2005, at 2.20, Joe Rhett wrote:
> 
> >Soren, I've just retested all of this with 5.4-REL and most of the  
> >problems
> >listed here are solved.  The only problems appear to be related to  
> >these
> >ghost arrays that appear when it finds a drive that was taken offline
> >earlier.  For example, pull a drive and then reboot the system.
> 
> This depends heavily on the metadata format used, some of them simply  
> doesn't have the info to avoid this and some just ignores the problem.
		..		.. 
> You need to overwrite the metadata (se above) which are located in  
> different places again depending on metadata format.
 
So where is it located with the sil3114 controler?
(same as 3112, but with 4 ports...)

Is there anything I can do with userland utilities?

> ATA mkIII is exactly about getting ata-raid rewritten from the old  
> cruft that originally was written before even ATA-ng was done, so yes  
> I'd expect it to behave better but not necessarily solve all your  
> problems as some of them might be "features" of the metadata
 
So what do I need to know to determine the problem?

-- 
Joe Rhett
senior geek
meer.net



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