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From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
To: Michael Peterson <Michael.Peterson@duke.edu>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: tracking parity mismatches to a failing disk
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 14:17:04 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120604141704.12dcbd3e@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FAAC278.6080303@duke.edu>

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On Wed, 09 May 2012 15:16:08 -0400 Michael Peterson
<Michael.Peterson@duke.edu> wrote:

> I'm trying to identify the source of a non-zero mismatch_cnt on a
> six-disk RAID6 md array.  I think I've identified it as /dev/sdf since
> that is the only device with a non-zero value in
> /sys/block/md0/md/dev-sd*/errors.  Is that the right way to track parity
> mismatches back to a disk?
> 
> OS is CentOS 5.8 -> mdadm 2.6.9

There is a program in the mdadm source distro called "raid6check" which can
possibly help you.

NeilBrown

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      reply	other threads:[~2012-06-04  4:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-09 19:16 tracking parity mismatches to a failing disk Michael Peterson
2012-06-04  4:17 ` NeilBrown [this message]

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