Re: patch fr1-2.17 does not work with kernel 2.4.30

"Also sprach Stephan von Krawczynski:"
> On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:51:10 +0200 (MET DST)
> "Peter T. Breuer" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > "Also sprach Stephan von Krawczynski:"
> > > I re-did the test according to FR1 readme with raidsetfaulty / raidhotadd
> > > and found out it resyncs the whole raid although there should be no
> > > difference between the two devices "out of sync".
> > 
> > Can you show me the kernel messages relating to that?
> 
> Sorry, here is another bunch of messages after finished sync:
> 
> Apr 10 09:02:35 mail-a01 kernel: raid1: skipped clean sectors 0-204799

This is a complete resync without rewriting anything. Looks like
success to me!


> That indeed reads as if it was working, but this is a 100MB raid1 on
> loop-device. Should that take really around 3 minutes to sync (see timestamp)?

No - but it correctly skipped writing all files.  Something must be
limiting the speed.  Try changing the throttle numbers in
/proc/sys/dev/raid.

I'll look at the throttle mechanism if that isn't it.

Peter