From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Farkas Levente Subject: Re: Why does one get mismatches? Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:48:20 +0100 Message-ID: <4B583F04.70005@lfarkas.org> References: <387070.15704.qm@web51305.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <70ed7c3e1001201244k3c734336y8e145bb50f88de26@mail.gmail.com> <70ed7c3e1001201430i72023a9fq1341b671073ac53c@mail.gmail.com> <968ea7bde37a4085f4588f2ef4447d94@localhost> <4B580B8A.5080806@shiftmail.org> <9cb28690ac0d4d79dde44b0f7c43d7d0@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <9cb28690ac0d4d79dde44b0f7c43d7d0@localhost> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Steven Haigh Cc: Asdo , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 01/21/2010 11:52 AM, Steven Haigh wrote: > On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:08:42 +0100, Asdo wrote: >> Steven Haigh wrote: >>> On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:43:45 -0500, Brett Russ > wrote: >>> >>> CUT! >> Might that be a problem of the disks/controllers? >> Jon and Steven, what hardware do you have? > > I'm running some fairly old hardware on this particular server. It's a > dual P3 1Ghz. > > After running a repair on /dev/md2, I now see: > # cat /sys/block/md2/md/mismatch_cnt > 1536 > > Again, no smart errors, nothing to indicate a disk problem at all :( > > As this really keeps killing the machine and it is a live system - the > only thing I can really think of doing is to break the RAID and just rsync > the drives twice daily :\ the same happened with many people. and we all hate it since it cause a huge load at all weekend on most of our servers:-( according to redhat it's not a bug:-( -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"