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From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Robert Hulme <rob@robhulme.com>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is my RAID broken?
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 12:07:46 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45520EE2.3010105@tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17742.25624.469667.437194@cse.unsw.edu.au>

Neil Brown wrote:

>On Sunday November 5, rob@robhulme.com wrote:
>  
>
>>If its resyncing that means it detected an error, right?
>>    
>>
>
>Not a disk error.  'resyncing' means that at startup it looked like
>the array hadn't been shutdown properly so it is making sure that all
>the redundancy in the array is consistent.
>
>So it looks like you machine recently crashed (power failure?) and
>it is restarting.
>
There is always the possibility that shutdown scripts don't do the right 
thing, as well. I believe one of the major distros showed this problem 
within the last few months, depending on the RAID options used.

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO TMR Associates, Inc
  Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979


      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-11-08 17:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-05  7:29 Is my RAID broken? Robert Hulme
2006-11-05 22:22 ` Neil Brown
2006-11-06  7:59   ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2006-11-06  8:17     ` dean gaudet
2006-11-06  9:45       ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2006-11-08 17:07   ` Bill Davidsen [this message]

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