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Re: swidth with mdadm and RAID6

To: Shailendra Tripathi <stripathi@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: swidth with mdadm and RAID6
From: Timothy Shimmin <tes@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 15:11:58 +1000
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Hi Shailendra and Steve,

Shailendra Tripathi wrote:
Hi Steve,
Your guess appears to be correct. md_ioctl returns nr which is total number of disk in the array including the spare disks. However, XFS function md_get_vol_stripe does not take spare disk into account. It needs to subtract spare_disks as well.
However, md.spare_disks returned by the call returns spare + parity (both). So, one way could be substract spare_disks directly. Otherwise, the xfs should rely on md.raid_disks. This does not include spare_disks and nr.disks should be changed for that.
When I run my program md_info on raid5 array with 5 devices and 2 spares, I get
[root@ga09 root]# ./a.out /dev/md11
Level 5, disks=7 spare_disks=3 raid_disks=5


Steve can you please compile the pasted program and run on your system with md prepared. It takes /dev/md<no> as input.
In your case, you should get above line as:
Level 6, disks=11 spare disks=3 raid_disks=10


      nr=working=active=failed=spare=0;
       ITERATE_RDEV(mddev,rdev,tmp) {
               nr++;
               if (rdev->faulty)
                       failed++;
               else {
                       working++;
                       if (rdev->in_sync)
                               active++;
                       else
                               spare++;
               }
       }

       info.level         = mddev->level;
       info.size          = mddev->size;
       info.nr_disks      = nr;
      ....
       info.active_disks  = active;
       info.working_disks = working;
       info.failed_disks  = failed;
       info.spare_disks   = spare;

-shailendra

I'm not that au fait with RAID and md, but looking at what you wrote, Shailendra, and the md code, instead of your suggestions (what I think are your suggestions:) of:

(1) subtracting parity from md.raid_disk (instead of md.nr_disks)
    where we work out parity by switching on md.level
or
(2) using directly: (md.nr_disks - md.spares);

that instead we could use:
(3) using directly:  md.active_disks

i.e.
*swidth = *sunit * md.active_disks;
I presume that active is the working non spares and non-parity.

Does that make sense?

--Tim


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