On 10/11/07, Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday October 11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Package: mdadm > > Version: 2.5.6-9 > > Severity: normal > > > > Hello, > > I am trying to setup raid1 on my pc. > > I have 2 identical drives. 270+gb. each with 3 partitions. > > 30gb hdb1 -> md0 > > 250gb hdb2 ->md2 > > 4gb swap hdb5 ->md4 > > > > Initially my raid had only one drive. I have added the second one with > > mdadm --add /dev/md2 /dev/hda1 then 2 then 4 > > > > It started doing recovery for drives. IT finished for md0,md4 but for > > md2 it is in infinite loop. IT goes to 15 % and starts again > > Very weird.... > > This is a kernel problem rather than an 'mdadm' problem, but anyway... > > Th recovery process thinks that it is either getting an error or being > interrupted. > > If it was getting a write error to the new drive, that drive would be > marked faulty, so that isn't happening. > If it was getting a read error from the good drive, it would say > raid1: md2: unrecoverable I/O read error fro block XXXXXX > and that isn't happening.. So it cannot be an IO error. > > There are three ways to interrupt the resync. > > 1/ Send a signal to the thread. That would result in the message > md: md_do_sync() got signal ... exiting > 2/ Stop the array (mdadm -S). If you did that, the array would stop. > 3/ Write 'idle' to /sys/block/md2/md/sync_action > > Given the logs that you posted, the last one is the only option I can > think of. By why would you be doing that. > It could be done with > /usr/share/mdadm/checkarray -x all > but I cannot see that being done either. > > So I am confused. > > Have you tried rebooting to see if that helps? > yes I have. Then I tried booting in knoppix to see if maybe there are hdd problems so I run e2fsck on both drives to see if there are any issues. reboot and it still does the same thing.
Is mdadm able to sync in init 1? Is there a debug mode so I could get more logs for the mdadm? If this seems as a kernel problem, how could I find out that is the case? Where would I start? Lucas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
