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* Determining which spindle is out of order
@ 2010-11-03 14:13 Nat Makarevitch
  2010-11-03 14:38 ` Roman Mamedov
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  0 siblings, 5 replies; 39+ messages in thread
From: Nat Makarevitch @ 2010-11-03 14:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-raid

Hi,

After a spindle (physical hard disk, a "drive") failure in a "md" RAID array,
how can we know which spindle must be replaced?

We want to avoid extracting a working spindle by mistakenly thinking it is the
faulty one...

To solve this problem we put on each spindle a physical label (a tag, not a
partition/disk label) showing its device name (sda, sdb...).

To do so: on an otherwise unused system and sane RAID array we ran "dd" for each
each spindle (individual device) in order to read on it, lighting up its LED.

Then we simulated a crash by physically removing two spindles. Upon reboot the
devices names changed (?!) and our labels weren't right anymore albeit we are
pretty sure they were.

Context: raid10, 10 spindles (8 active + 2 spare), layout : near=1, offset=3. On
the integrated controller + a LSI MPT on-board controller.


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2010-11-03 14:13 Determining which spindle is out of order Nat Makarevitch
2010-11-03 14:38 ` Roman Mamedov
2010-11-03 15:17   ` Graham Mitchell
2010-11-03 16:05     ` Roman Mamedov
2010-11-03 19:00       ` Jon Hardcastle
2010-11-03 14:43 ` John Robinson
2010-11-03 14:45 ` Tim Small
2010-11-03 15:59   ` Jon Hardcastle
2010-11-03 17:17     ` Bill Davidsen
2010-11-03 20:03       ` Tim Small
2010-11-03 15:29 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2010-11-03 21:54 ` Phil Turmel
2010-11-03 22:26   ` Roman Mamedov
2010-11-04  9:29   ` Tom Carlson
2010-11-06 10:22   ` Leslie Rhorer
2010-11-06 15:12     ` Phil Turmel
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2010-11-06 16:02         ` Phil Turmel
2010-11-06 16:11           ` Mathias Burén
2010-11-06 16:45           ` Jan Ceuleers
2010-11-06 19:39             ` Phil Turmel
2010-11-06 20:16               ` Leslie Rhorer
2010-11-06 20:23               ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2010-11-07  7:51               ` Jan Ceuleers
2010-11-07 12:53           ` John Robinson
2010-11-07 13:21             ` Phil Turmel
2010-11-07 13:43               ` John Robinson
2010-11-07 14:43                 ` Phil Turmel
2010-11-07 15:04                   ` Mathias Burén
2010-11-07 15:19                   ` John Robinson
2010-11-07 18:39                     ` Phil Turmel
2010-11-07 20:46                       ` Leslie Rhorer
2010-11-07 21:22                         ` John Robinson
2010-11-08 18:59                           ` John Robinson
2010-11-07 21:24                       ` Andreas Dröscher
2010-11-08 21:05                   ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2010-11-07 20:52                 ` Roman Mamedov
2010-11-09 14:40                   ` Phil Turmel
2010-11-06 19:58       ` Leslie Rhorer
2010-11-06 21:17       ` John Robinson

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