Re: software raid 5 broken on 2.6.14.4 sparc

[Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>]

Gerhard Mack wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I had one of 5 drives fail in my raid 5 setup and now many files are 
> unreadable..  Isn't raid 5 supposed to compensate for exactly this 
> happening?

It looks like you have multiple drives with problems here:

Here's sde unhappy:

> Dec 25 18:36:27 localhost kernel: sde: Current: sense key: Recovered Error
> Dec 25 18:36:27 localhost kernel:     Additional sense: Recovered data - recommend reassignment

sdb seems to be overheating:

> Dec 26 11:25:56 localhost kernel: sdb: Current: sense key: Recovered Error
> Dec 26 11:25:56 localhost kernel:     Additional sense: Warning - specified temperature exceeded

Now sdf is unhappy..

> Dec 29 06:26:07 localhost kernel: sdf: Current: sense key: Hardware Error
> Dec 29 06:26:07 localhost kernel:     Additional sense: Mechanical positioning error
> Dec 29 06:26:07 localhost kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdf, sector 9664
> Dec 29 06:26:07 localhost kernel: raid5: Disk failure on sdf, disabling device. Operation continuing on 4 devices

> Dec 29 06:26:07 localhost kernel: RAID5 conf printout:
> Dec 29 06:26:07 localhost kernel:  --- rd:6 wd:4 fd:2
> Dec 29 06:26:07 localhost kernel:  disk 0, o:1, dev:sdc
> Dec 29 06:26:07 localhost kernel:  disk 1, o:1, dev:sdd
> Dec 29 06:26:07 localhost kernel:  disk 2, o:1, dev:sde
> Dec 29 06:26:07 localhost kernel:  disk 3, o:0, dev:sdf
> Dec 29 06:26:07 localhost kernel:  disk 4, o:1, dev:sdg
> Dec 29 06:26:07 localhost kernel: RAID5 conf printout:
> Dec 29 06:26:07 localhost kernel:  --- rd:6 wd:4 fd:2
> Dec 29 06:26:07 localhost kernel:  disk 0, o:1, dev:sdc
> Dec 29 06:26:07 localhost kernel:  disk 1, o:1, dev:sdd
> Dec 29 06:26:07 localhost kernel:  disk 2, o:1, dev:sde
> Dec 29 06:26:07 localhost kernel:  disk 4, o:1, dev:sdg
> Dec 29 06:26:07 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device md0, logical block 6040
> Dec 29 06:26:07 localhost kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on md0
> Dec 29 06:26:07 localhost kernel: REISERFS: abort (device md0): Journal write error in flush_commit_list
> Dec 29 06:26:07 localhost kernel: REISERFS: Aborting journal for filesystem on md0
> Dec 29 07:16:56 localhost kernel: ReiserFS: md0: warning: clm-6006: writing inode 2996 on readonly FS
> Dec 29 07:16:56 localhost kernel: ReiserFS: md0: warning: clm-6006: writing inode 2996 on readonly FS
> Dec 29 07:17:28 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device md0, logical block 5052984
> Dec 29 07:17:28 localhost kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on md0

I don't know if this completely explains the failure, but it seems you 
have bigger problems than one bad drive, and RAID5 cannot handle 
multiple drive failures.

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