From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mario Holbe Subject: Re: No response? Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 19:30:52 +0100 Message-ID: References: Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids David Dougall wrote: > If I am running software raid1 and a disk device starts throwing I/O > errors, Is the filesystem supposed to see any indication of this? I Usually this should not happen. Presumed a) this device is not the only active device in this RAID1 and b) this device is the only failing one. > I have servers with xfs as the filesystem and xfs will start to throw I/O > errors when a disk starts acting up even with software raid in between. It could be helpful to show the messages appearing (dmesg), the RAID setup (cat /proc/mdstat) and the mount (cat /etc/fstab /etc/mtab or /proc/mounts). regards, Mario -- Oh well, config one actually wonders what force in the universe is holding it and makes it working chances and accidents :)