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From: Turbo Fredriksson <turbo@bayour.com>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Which (physical) disk is broken?
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 13:35:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wtv3zzov.fsf@pumba.bayour.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200412241714.iBOHED921515@www.watkins-home.com> (bugzilla@watkins-home.com's message of "Fri, 24 Dec 2004 12:14:07 -0500")

>>>>> "Guy" == Guy  <bugzilla@watkins-home.com> writes:

    Guy> The info is in the superblock.  But if the disk has failed,
    Guy> you may not be able to read the superblock.

It's not THAT failed. It just have way to many bad blocks to be useful
so I took it out of service (but, unfortunately not from the machine -
I'll remember to do that next time :)...

To bad there's no 'eject' command for disks :) That would be quite funny,
shooting my colleague(s) with disks from the rack :)

    Guy> Did you say you don't use superblocks?  I guess you better
    Guy> keep a paper trail!

I do, but I always forget to update it... 

    Guy> You said: "when persistent super blocks is used (which I
    Guy> don't)."

I didn't say I don't use 'super blocks' I said 'PERSISTENT super blocks'

    Guy> But the output from mdadm said: "Persistence : Superblock is
    Guy> persistent"

He, yeah. Sorry. I saw that in the same instant it was sent, but to late
to cancel...


I've had quite a lot of time thinking about this, and I am now QUITE
sure that I created the array with 'missing' on the place where this
disk should have been.... I can VAGLEY remember that that disk kept
failing the array when I built the machine/array initially. But I'm not
sure it was THAT disk, or some other (I have a bunch of these disks
that "don't quite work")...

Thanx for all the help everyone. But seeing the thread 
'mdadm -D /dev/md3: 1  0  0  0  sync ???' on this list, leads me to
believe I'm not THAT far out in wanting some better information
on what disk is what...
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      reply	other threads:[~2004-12-27 12:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-21 11:08 Which (physical) disk is broken? Turbo Fredriksson
2004-12-22 16:39 ` Guy
2004-12-22 20:15   ` Michael
2004-12-22 23:10     ` Neil Brown
2004-12-23  0:52       ` Guy
2004-12-22 22:33   ` Turbo Fredriksson
2004-12-22 23:00     ` Neil Brown
2004-12-24 11:09       ` Turbo Fredriksson
2004-12-24 11:31         ` Theepan
2004-12-24 12:32           ` Turbo Fredriksson
2004-12-24 17:14         ` Guy
2004-12-27 12:35           ` Turbo Fredriksson [this message]

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