Re: Borked MD RAID...



Lonni J Friedman wrote:
Is it always the same disk that gets marked offline ? Perhaps the
disk is actually bad?

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Eitan Tsur <eitan.tsur@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Even if I remove that it still happens.

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Lonni J Friedman <netllama@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
If you only have 3 disks, then you can't have:
spares=1



On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Eitan Tsur <eitan.tsur@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
# mdadm.conf written out by anaconda
DEVICE partitions
MAILADDR root@localhost

ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid5 num-devices=3 spares=1
UUID=0c21bf19:83747f05:70a4872d:90643876
If I switch the "DEVICE partitions" with "DEVICE /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1
/dev/sdd1", drives no longer are allocated as spares, however the array
still seems to rebuild every boot.

I don't remember the specifics of what was in /proc/mdstat at the time,
but
currently the array is being rebuilt. I'll reboot after it is complete
to
give you a copy of it. Basically it allocated the dropped drive as a
spare
which I'd have to mdadm -stop and mdadm -add to the original array after
every boot, manually. Give me an hour or two and I'll get you the
output of
mdstat.

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Lonni J Friedman <netllama@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Eitan Tsur <eitan.tsur@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I just recently installed a 3-disk RAID5 array in a server of mine,
running
FC9. Upon reboot, one of the drives drops out, and is allocated as a
spare.
I suspect there is some sort of issue where DBUS re-arranges the
drive-to-device maps between boots, but I am not sure... Just kind of
annoying to have to stop and re-add a drive every boot, and wait the
couple
hours for the array to rebuild the 3rd disk. Any thoughts? Anyone
else
encountered such an issue before? What should I be looking for? I'm
new
to
the world of RAID, so any information you can give may be helpful.
What's in /etc/mdadm.conf, /proc/mdstat and dmesg when this fails ?


check and make sure that the UUID number your specifying in your /etc/mdadm.conf file is correct. You can verify the UUID numbers by typing "ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid"

Next verify that the UUID numbers in your /etc/mdad.conf file stored in the initrd file is correct, you'll have to extract the initrd file
with cpio. I don't remember the full procedure but you should be able to find it pretty easily with your favorite search engine.

Jeff

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