On Monday 28 June 2004 23:46, Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
> Steve Wray wrote:
> >> Does anyone know if the combination of LVM2 and software RAID5 on
> >> top of SATA works reliably outside of any filesystem issues?
> >
> > We are running a debian woody box, with some things from backports;
> > its got 2.6.6 kernel, LVM2, sata, software raid 5 and many of its
> > filesystems are XFS.
> >
> > We've been seeing lots of problems on the XFS partitions, but
> > touching /forcefsck and watching a reboot reveals that there are
> > frequently problems with other filesystems; / frequently has issues
> > and its ext2 on /dev/hda1 which is a PATA device.
> >
> > XFS certainly complains a lot louder than the other filesystems do
> > when it has problems, but I don't believe that its an XFS specific
> > problem.
>
> What SATA controller are you running? I think I've traced my
> problems to the Silicon Image 3112 controller. There are known
> problems with this chip which look like they have been fixed, but
> only if you apply all of the latest patches (latest from 6/22:
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ide&m=108793699914304&w=2 )
From dmesg;
ICH5-SATA: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.2
ICH5-SATA: chipset revision 2
ICH5-SATA: 100% native mode on irq 11
From lspci;
0000:00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801EB (ICH5) Serial ATA 150
Storage Controller (rev 02)
I didn't build the box and the guy who did isn't around so that will
have to do for now
:)
>
> I'm waiting on a new SATA controller so I can start testing again and
> see if that's my only problem.
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