From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Davidsen Subject: Re: Is my RAID broken? Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 12:07:46 -0500 Message-ID: <45520EE2.3010105@tmr.com> References: <17742.25624.469667.437194@cse.unsw.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <17742.25624.469667.437194@cse.unsw.edu.au> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Neil Brown Cc: Robert Hulme , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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 CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979