Re: disaster. raid1 drive failure rsync=DELAYED why?? please help

2005-03-14 Thread David Greaves
Mitchell Laks wrote: On Sunday 13 March 2005 10:49 am, David Greave wrote: Many Helpful remarks: David I am grateful that you were there for me. No probs - we've all been there! My assessment (correct me if I am wrong) is that I have to rethink my architecture. As I continue to work with sof

Re: disaster. raid1 drive failure rsync=DELAYED why?? please help

2005-03-13 Thread Mitchell Laks
On Sunday 13 March 2005 10:49 am, David Greave wrote: Many Helpful remarks: > David I am grateful that you were there for me. I went to the site. I connected a monitor to the headless machine. I saw the screen flooded with write errors to the spare drive in the original raid1. The terminals were

Re: disaster. raid1 drive failure rsync=DELAYED why?? please help

2005-03-13 Thread David Greaves
Mitchell Laks wrote: Hi, I have a remote system with a raid1 of a data disk. I got a call from the person using the system that the application that writes to the data disk was not working. system drive is /dev/hda with separte partitions / , /var, /home, /tmp. data drive is linux software raid

Re: disaster. raid1 drive failure rsync=DELAYED why?? please help

2005-03-13 Thread David Greaves
Mitchell Laks wrote: On Sunday 13 March 2005 04:49 am, you wrote: kernel version, mdadm version? debian sarge: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a Linux A1 2.6.8-1-386 #1 Thu Nov 25 04:24:08 UTC 2004 i686 GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ export COLUMNS=200;dpkg -l|grep mdadm ii mdadm

Re: disaster. raid1 drive failure rsync=DELAYED why?? please help

2005-03-13 Thread Mitchell Laks
On Sunday 13 March 2005 04:49 am, you wrote: > kernel version, mdadm version? debian sarge: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a Linux A1 2.6.8-1-386 #1 Thu Nov 25 04:24:08 UTC 2004 i686 GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ export COLUMNS=200;dpkg -l|grep mdadm ii mdadm

Re: disaster. raid1 drive failure rsync=DELAYED why?? please help

2005-03-13 Thread David Greaves
kernel version, mdadm version? David - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: disaster. raid1 drive failure rsync=DELAYED why?? please help

2005-03-12 Thread Mitchell Laks
One more bit of information: this was a bit of info from tail /var/log/kern.log Mar 11 04:42:11 A1 kernel: Mar 11 04:42:11 A1 kernel: hdg: drive not ready for command Mar 11 04:42:11 A1 kernel: raid1: hdg1: rescheduling sector 215908496 Mar 11 04:42:11 A1 kernel: raid1: hdg1: redirecting sector

Re: disaster. raid1 drive failure rsync=DELAYED why?? please help

2005-03-12 Thread Mitchell Laks
I had some more bright ideas and here is what happened: I am unable to even do ls on the directory mounted on this raid device. So, I said, maybe the problem is that I need to run fsck.ext3 on the drive first. So I tried to umount it and i got the error message: A1:~# umount /home/big0 umount:

Re: disaster. raid1 drive failure rsync=DELAYED why?? please help

2005-03-12 Thread Mitchell Laks
Hi: some additional information 1) I tried to add the new spare device to /dev/md0 on friday afternoon. It still has not rebuilt. I am also unable to do "ls" of the directory of the drive. 2) I had another idea. Why not umount the drive and then run fsck.ext3 on the drive. Maybe it needs fsck?

disaster. raid1 drive failure rsync=DELAYED why?? please help

2005-03-12 Thread Mitchell Laks
Hi, I have a remote system with a raid1 of a data disk. I got a call from the person using the system that the application that writes to the data disk was not working. system drive is /dev/hda with separte partitions / , /var, /home, /tmp. data drive is linux software raid1 /dev/md0 with /dev/