geom_raid5 livelock?

[CyberLeo Kitsana]

R. B. Riddick wrote:
> Thank you for the tests... :-)

You're welcome. Always glad to help squash bugs.

> 1. (hard way)
> Look at the data (16KB) at that offset of all disks and see, where exactly the
> parity mismatches ("dd if=/dev/adXs2 bs=16k iseek=16140017
> of=/tmp/adXs2.test..."; then we could XOR them all together and see, where we
> have non-zero bits)

I XORed together all four 16k blocks captured during a livelock, and it 
came out to a file full of nul bytes. Given what you'd said, I believe 
that means the parity is correct for that stripe.

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