gvinum: raid5 rebuild hangs on md disk

[Lukas Ertl]

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Jan-Oliver Neumann wrote:

> The raid5 plex is running fine with this setup and after killing one of 
> the mds using "mdconfig -d -u 0", the raid5 plex is running correctly in 
> degraded mode. When I reattach the md, the "lost" subdisk shows up again 
> as "stale", but when restarting the plex, the rebuild process stalls at 
> 0%, the plex continues to operate in "degraded" mode. Rest of the system 
> is not affected, I am running 5-STABLE as of Nov 24th.

Hmmm, it seems the threads blocks somewhere.  I need to investigate this 
further.  I guess it should be able to rebuild fine after a reboot, but 
this is an md device it's not really useful. :-)

Thanks for the report.

cheers,
le

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