On Friday, May 26, 2000, Thomas Gebhardt said:
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> /proc/mdstat says that the new disk is resyncing but there is no
> progress at all. There is only 1% of the mirror in sync now and
> the estimated time of completion grows continuously. There is
> a load average of about 1.0 caused by this process.
>
I have seen the same thing. 0% reported progress,
time estimate runs away. This after doing 'raidsetfaulty',
'raidhotremove', and 'raidhotadd' on an OK disk partition -
I was just doing some testing.
> After several trys I gave up to resync the mirror and started
> the server with the incomplete RAID 1 Array :-(
>
For me, the only way to stop this was to reboot (raidstop
just hung). Even reboot was not clean as the offending array
wouldn't stop during shut down. Had to press reset - causing
long re-sync of other arrays after restart.
> Environment:
> Kernel is 2.2.10 with new-raid-style patches applied, auto-detection
> activated and a persistent superblock.
>
I saw this with clean 2.2.14, mingo's 2.2.14-B1 patch,
RAIDTOOLS-19990824-0_90_TAR.GZ, autodetect enabled raid
in the kernel (not a module).
> Any hints?
>
> Thanks, Thomas
