Re: [CentOS] DegradedArray message

2014-12-09 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 12/08/2014 08:35 PM, David McGuffey wrote: I'll still get ready for another failure. Will read up on the best methods to have an encrypted filesystem on top of raid-1. I'm pretty sure that if you tell the Fedora installer to build an encrypted RAID1 system, you'll get exactly what I describ

Re: [CentOS] DegradedArray message

2014-12-08 Thread David McGuffey
On Mon, 2014-12-08 at 21:11 -0500, David McGuffey wrote: > On Thu, 2014-12-04 at 16:46 -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: > > On 12/04/2014 05:45 AM, David McGuffey wrote: > > > In practice, however, there's a bunch of information you didn't provide, > > so some of those steps are wrong. > > > > I'm n

Re: [CentOS] DegradedArray message

2014-12-08 Thread David McGuffey
On Thu, 2014-12-04 at 16:46 -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 12/04/2014 05:45 AM, David McGuffey wrote: > In practice, however, there's a bunch of information you didn't provide, > so some of those steps are wrong. > > I'm not sure what dm-0, dm-2 and dm-3 are, but they're indicated in your >

Re: [CentOS] DegradedArray message

2014-12-04 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 12/04/2014 05:45 AM, David McGuffey wrote: md0 is made up of two 250G disks on which the OS and a very large /var partions resides for a number of virtual machines. ... Challenge is that disk 0 of md0 is the problem and it has a 524M /boot partition outside of the raid partition. Assuming

Re: [CentOS] DegradedArray message

2014-12-04 Thread David McGuffey
Thanks for all the responses. A little more digging revealed: md0 is made up of two 250G disks on which the OS and a very large /var partions resides for a number of virtual machines. md1 is made up of two 2T disks on which /home resides. Challenge is that disk 0 of md0 is the problem and it ha

Re: [CentOS] DegradedArray message

2014-12-03 Thread Leon Fauster
Hi David, Am 03.12.2014 um 02:14 schrieb David McGuffey : > This is an automatically generated mail message from mdadm > running on desk4 > > A DegradedArray event had been detected on md device /dev/md0. > > Faithfully yours, etc. > > P.S. The /proc/mdstat file currently contains the following

Re: [CentOS] DegradedArray message

2014-12-03 Thread SilverTip257
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 1:44 AM, Mogens Kjaer wrote: > On 12/03/2014 03:24 AM, Fred Smith wrote: > >> OTOH, I had a perfectly good drive get kicked out of my RAID-1 >> array a fewyears ago just because, well, I guess I could say >> "it felt like it". >> > > I've seen that too several times on my h

Re: [CentOS] DegradedArray message

2014-12-02 Thread Mogens Kjaer
On 12/03/2014 03:24 AM, Fred Smith wrote: OTOH, I had a perfectly good drive get kicked out of my RAID-1 array a fewyears ago just because, well, I guess I could say "it felt like it". I've seen that too several times on my home "server". Once in a while (usually on one of the first days I'm o

Re: [CentOS] DegradedArray message

2014-12-02 Thread John R Pierce
On 12/2/2014 6:24 PM, Fred Smith wrote: In reality, I had (in my ignorance) purchased a pair of WD drives that aren't intended to be used in a RAID array, and once in a long while (that was actually the only such instance in the 4-5 years I've had that RAID array) it doesn't respond to some HD co

Re: [CentOS] DegradedArray message

2014-12-02 Thread Keith Keller
On 2014-12-03, David McGuffey wrote: > > Appears to me that device 0 (/dev/dm-2) on md0 has been removed because > of problems. That looks about right. There may be more error messages in your system logs (e.g., /var/log/messages, dmesg), which might tell you more about the nature of the failure

Re: [CentOS] DegradedArray message

2014-12-02 Thread Fred Smith
On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 08:14:19PM -0500, David McGuffey wrote: > Received the following message in mail to root: > > Message 257: > >From root@desk4.localdomain Tue Oct 28 07:25:37 2014 > Return-Path: > X-Original-To: root > Delivered-To: root@desk4.localdomain > From: mdadm monitoring > To: r

Re: [CentOS] DegradedArray message

2014-12-02 Thread Digimer
On 02/12/14 08:14 PM, David McGuffey wrote: Received the following message in mail to root: Message 257: From root@desk4.localdomain Tue Oct 28 07:25:37 2014 Return-Path: X-Original-To: root Delivered-To: root@desk4.localdomain From: mdadm monitoring To: root@desk4.localdomain Subject: Degra

[CentOS] DegradedArray message

2014-12-02 Thread David McGuffey
Received the following message in mail to root: Message 257: >From root@desk4.localdomain Tue Oct 28 07:25:37 2014 Return-Path: X-Original-To: root Delivered-To: root@desk4.localdomain From: mdadm monitoring To: root@desk4.localdomain Subject: DegradedArray event on /dev/md0:desk4 Date: Tue, 28