From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Farkas Levente Subject: why the kernel and mdadm report differently Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 11:01:28 +0200 Message-ID: <431C0968.10301@bppiac.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids hi, one of our raid array is crash all the time (once a week), and one more stange thing that it's currently not working, kernel report inactive while mdadm said it's active, degraded. what's more we cant put this array into active state. this is mdadm 1.12, just another site note there is no rpm for version 2.0:-( yours. --------------------------------------------------- [root@kek:~] mdadm --detail /dev/md2 /dev/md2: Version : 00.90.01 Creation Time : Tue Jun 1 09:37:17 2004 Raid Level : raid5 Device Size : 120053632 (114.49 GiB 122.93 GB) Raid Devices : 7 Total Devices : 7 Preferred Minor : 2 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Sat Sep 3 16:10:39 2005 State : active, degraded Active Devices : 6 Working Devices : 7 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 1 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 128K UUID : 79b566fd:924d9c94:15304031:0c945006 Events : 0.3130 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 0 0 - removed 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 - spare /dev/sdh1 [root@kek:~] cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] [raid5] md1 : active raid1 hdc1[0] hda1[1] 1048704 blocks [2/2] [UU] md2 : inactive sda1[0] sdh1[7] sdg1[6] sdf1[5] sde1[4] sdc1[2] sdb1[1] 840375424 blocks md0 : active raid1 hdc2[0] hda2[1] 39097664 blocks [2/2] [UU] unused devices: --------------------------------------------------- -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"