From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjammin2068 Subject: Re: WARNING: mismatch_cnt is not 0 on Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 20:08:24 -0500 Message-ID: References: <26b91420-97c9-f405-aa71-16cd5cda3a67@gmail.com> <409d9f5f-6f72-a399-93ab-2b10323f4122@fnarfbargle.com> <74e5712f-e89e-97af-8aa4-ae2948c02e94@turmel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <74e5712f-e89e-97af-8aa4-ae2948c02e94@turmel.org> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Phil Turmel , Linux-RAID List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 09/26/2016 04:15 PM, Phil Turmel wrote: > On 09/26/2016 03:47 PM, Benjammin2068 wrote: >> Well that instills fear and doubt... >> >> the mismatch_cnt was 8. >> >> I did a repair and then a check and now it's 10704.... >> >> :( > Danger Will Robinson! > > Seriously. You very likely have a hardware problem corrupting your > data. Do you have ECC RAM, and if not, when was the last time you did > an exhaustive memtest? ECC RAM: Yes. MEMtest - not for a while. Will do. Have to take my server down for that. This problem has only popped up since putting in this new controller *AND* expanding the RAID to a drive on this controller when changing RAID5 with 4 members (using MB SATA ports) to RAID6 using 5 members that includes 2 drives on new controller of which 1 is a hot spare. (and the controller is a Marvell 88SE9485 - anyone know of any problems with this controller? It's a x8 controller living in a x8 slot. > Recheck all of your data cables and if using an add-on controller, check > for a secure install in the PCIe slot. > Will do. Is there way to verify if that 5th drive is "the problem drive"? Also, I just did a "repair" and the mismatch is now back to 8... which seems like a suspicious number considering the filesystem on this new drive (because it's a WD10 series with 4096byte sectors) has a slightly larger FS than the Samsung HD103SJ (and Seagate equivalents) in the array too. And I just found this: https://www.thomas-krenn.com/en/wiki/Mdadm_checkarray Which says, "It could simply be that the system does not care what is stored on that part of the array - it is unused space." I have WD10 drives that have this "extra space" thing going on because of their 4096byte sector size thing. (see previous posts about that to this list.) -Ben