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
prev 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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