Folks,
I had two drives fails on a 13 drive RAID5 array with bad-blocks
(confirmed this with external disk scan). I replaced and hot-added new
drives back into array. Resync completed without incident. I moved the
machine back into production and after reboot, the two new drives get
kicked out of array for being non-fresh. Everything I try results in
these two drives always getting kicked out.
Here's what I tried.
searched and read for at least 10 hours for info on kicking
"non-fresh"
hot-adding then rebooting 5 times with same result
using kernel 2.4.30, 2.6.11.8 and 2.6.16.8.
(resync takes 4 hours to complete, so iterations take a while)
mdadm version is v1.12
after the resync before the reboot, manual stopping and starting the
array
always in correct operation (no kicking of drives)
My questions are
1. How does a drive become non-fresh?
2. Is the non-fresh status related to 'events'?
3. How can I determine that all the drives are fresh before a reboot?
4. 2.4.30 and 2.6.11.8 dmesg output mentions kicking non-fresh drives.
2.6.16.8 doesn't even consider my new drives, see "after
reboot" below
After a resync, how can I determine that all my drives are actually
part of the array?
mdadm -E /dev/sdX1 for each drive shows the same info.
5. From everything I've tried, the array looks fine before the reboot.
But no matter
what I've tried, the drives are kicked upon reboot.
6. /proc/mdstat reports "Personalities : [raid5] [raid4]", the array is
raid5,
where raid4 come from?
Thanks for reading this and any suggestions you can offer.
Craig
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Dr. Craig Hollabaugh, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 970 240 0509
Author of Embedded Linux: Hardware, Software and Interfacing
www.embeddedlinuxinterfacing.com
The two drives in question are sdj1 and sdk1.
Here's output after the resync before the reboot
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid5] [raid4]
md0 : active raid5 sdj1[12](S) sdk1[9] sda1[0] sdl1[11] hdc1[10] sdd1[8]
sdh1[7] sdg1[6] sdf1[5] sde1[4] sdi1[3] sdc1[2] sdb1[1]
1289056384 blocks level 5, 128k chunk, algorithm 2 [12/12]
[UUUUUUUUUUUU]
unused devices: <none>
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: mdadm -D /dev/md0
/dev/md0:
Version : 00.90.03
Creation Time : Thu Jan 16 09:10:52 2003
Raid Level : raid5
Array Size : 1289056384 (1229.34 GiB 1319.99 GB)
Device Size : 117186944 (111.76 GiB 120.00 GB)
Raid Devices : 12
Total Devices : 13
Preferred Minor : 0
Persistence : Superblock is persistent
Update Time : Thu May 25 05:36:58 2006
State : clean
Active Devices : 12
Working Devices : 13
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 1
Layout : left-symmetric
Chunk Size : 128K
UUID : 4d862825:91140f1a:eb97e7f2:9bfa2403
Events : 0.2681049
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
0 8 1 0 active sync /dev/sda1
1 8 17 1 active sync /dev/sdb1
2 8 33 2 active sync /dev/sdc1
3 8 129 3 active sync /dev/sdi1
4 8 65 4 active sync /dev/sde1
5 8 81 5 active sync /dev/sdf1
6 8 97 6 active sync /dev/sdg1
7 8 113 7 active sync /dev/sdh1
8 8 49 8 active sync /dev/sdd1
9 8 161 9 active sync /dev/sdk1
10 22 1 10 active sync /dev/hdc1
11 8 177 11 active sync /dev/sdl1
12 8 145 - spare /dev/sdj1
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: mdadm -E /dev/sdj1
/dev/sdj1:
Magic : a92b4efc
Version : 00.90.00
UUID : 4d862825:91140f1a:eb97e7f2:9bfa2403
Creation Time : Thu Jan 16 09:10:52 2003
Raid Level : raid5
Raid Devices : 12
Total Devices : 13
Preferred Minor : 0
Update Time : Thu May 25 05:36:58 2006
State : clean
Active Devices : 12
Working Devices : 13
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 1
Checksum : 9943fc98 - correct
Events : 0.2681049
Layout : left-symmetric
Chunk Size : 128K
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
this 12 8 145 12 spare /dev/sdj1
0 0 8 1 0 active sync /dev/sda1
1 1 8 17 1 active sync /dev/sdb1
2 2 8 33 2 active sync /dev/sdc1
3 3 8 129 3 active sync /dev/sdi1
4 4 8 65 4 active sync /dev/sde1
5 5 8 81 5 active sync /dev/sdf1
6 6 8 97 6 active sync /dev/sdg1
7 7 8 113 7 active sync /dev/sdh1
8 8 8 49 8 active sync /dev/sdd1
9 9 8 161 9 active sync /dev/sdk1
10 10 22 1 10 active sync /dev/hdc1
11 11 8 177 11 active sync /dev/sdl1
12 12 8 145 12 spare /dev/sdj1
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Now after reboot
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: uname -a
Linux vaughan 2.6.16.8 #1 Wed May 24 15:00:27 MDT 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
>From dmesg
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: considering sdl1 ...
md: adding sdl1 ...
md: adding sdi1 ...
md: adding sdh1 ...
md: adding sdg1 ...
md: adding sdf1 ...
md: adding sde1 ...
md: adding sdd1 ...
md: adding sdc1 ...
md: adding sdb1 ...
md: adding sda1 ...
md: adding hdc1 ...
md: created md0
The kernel didn't add sdj or sdk.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid5] [raid4]
md0 : active raid5 sdl1[11] sdi1[3] sdh1[7] sdg1[6] sdf1[5] sde1[4]
sdd1[8] sdc1[2] sdb1[1] sda1[0] hdc1[10]
1289056384 blocks level 5, 128k chunk, algorithm 2 [12/11]
[UUUUUUUUU_UU]
unused devices: <none>
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: mdadm -D /dev/md0
/dev/md0:
Version : 00.90.03
Creation Time : Thu Jan 16 09:10:52 2003
Raid Level : raid5
Array Size : 1289056384 (1229.34 GiB 1319.99 GB)
Device Size : 117186944 (111.76 GiB 120.00 GB)
Raid Devices : 12
Total Devices : 11
Preferred Minor : 0
Persistence : Superblock is persistent
Update Time : Thu May 25 05:36:58 2006
State : clean, degraded
Active Devices : 11
Working Devices : 11
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0
Layout : left-symmetric
Chunk Size : 128K
UUID : 4d862825:91140f1a:eb97e7f2:9bfa2403
Events : 0.2681049
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
0 8 1 0 active sync /dev/sda1
1 8 17 1 active sync /dev/sdb1
2 8 33 2 active sync /dev/sdc1
3 8 129 3 active sync /dev/sdi1
4 8 65 4 active sync /dev/sde1
5 8 81 5 active sync /dev/sdf1
6 8 97 6 active sync /dev/sdg1
7 8 113 7 active sync /dev/sdh1
8 8 49 8 active sync /dev/sdd1
9 0 0 - removed
10 22 1 10 active sync /dev/hdc1
11 8 177 11 active sync /dev/sdl1
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: mdadm -E /dev/sdj1
/dev/sdj1:
Magic : a92b4efc
Version : 00.90.00
UUID : 4d862825:91140f1a:eb97e7f2:9bfa2403
Creation Time : Thu Jan 16 09:10:52 2003
Raid Level : raid5
Raid Devices : 12
Total Devices : 13
Preferred Minor : 0
Update Time : Thu May 25 05:36:58 2006
State : clean
Active Devices : 12
Working Devices : 13
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 1
Checksum : 9943fc98 - correct
Events : 0.2681049
Layout : left-symmetric
Chunk Size : 128K
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
this 12 8 145 12 spare /dev/sdj1
0 0 8 1 0 active sync /dev/sda1
1 1 8 17 1 active sync /dev/sdb1
2 2 8 33 2 active sync /dev/sdc1
3 3 8 129 3 active sync /dev/sdi1
4 4 8 65 4 active sync /dev/sde1
5 5 8 81 5 active sync /dev/sdf1
6 6 8 97 6 active sync /dev/sdg1
7 7 8 113 7 active sync /dev/sdh1
8 8 8 49 8 active sync /dev/sdd1
9 9 8 161 9 active sync /dev/sdk1
10 10 22 1 10 active sync /dev/hdc1
11 11 8 177 11 active sync /dev/sdl1
12 12 8 145 12 spare /dev/sdj1
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