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From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Maurice Hilarius <maurice@harddata.com>
Cc: Linux RAID <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Question: how to identify failing disk in a RAID1
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:14:53 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4804F09D.5070503@tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4804CD4F.7080303@harddata.com>

Maurice Hilarius wrote:
> Bill Davidsen wrote:
>> ..
>> cd /sys/block/md0/md
>> echo check >sync_action; cat mismatch_cnt
>>
> Hi Bill,
>
> I am doing this as root.
> I am seeing:
>
> [root@localhost md]# echo check >sync_action; cat mismatch_cnt
> -bash: echo: write error: Device or resource busy
> 0
>
> any suggestions?

First, did you cd to the /sys/block/mdX/md directory? And did you wait 
for the check to finish, watching /proc/mdstat?
I left that out, assumed you had read it in the man pages...

-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  "Woe unto the statesman who makes war without a reason that will still
  be valid when the war is over..." Otto von Bismark 



  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-04-15 18:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-13 19:14 Question: how to identify failing disk in a RAID1 Maurice Hilarius
2008-04-13 19:29 ` Justin Piszcz
2008-04-14  1:14   ` Bill Davidsen
     [not found]     ` <4802CDA2.605@harddata.com>
2008-04-14 16:38       ` Bill Davidsen
     [not found]         ` <4804CD4F.7080303@harddata.com>
2008-04-15 18:14           ` Bill Davidsen [this message]
     [not found]             ` <48050DD6.7020404@harddata.com>
     [not found]               ` <48055EFA.8060505@tmr.com>
     [not found]                 ` <480607F2.3060504@harddata.com>
2008-04-17 13:12                   ` Bill Davidsen
     [not found]                     ` <48076096.2020804@harddata.com>
2008-04-18 13:17                       ` Bill Davidsen
     [not found]     ` <480F7105.9030405@harddata.com>
2008-04-23 18:54       ` Justin Piszcz
     [not found]         ` <480F8830.6020207@harddata.com>
2008-04-23 19:26           ` Justin Piszcz
2008-04-27 17:03             ` Keith Roberts
2008-04-27 19:28               ` Richard Scobie
2008-04-28  5:29                 ` Keith Roberts
2008-04-28  6:06                   ` Michael Tokarev
2008-04-28  7:01                   ` Richard Scobie
2008-04-27 21:53               ` Mark Hahn
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-04-18 17:36 David Lethe

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