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From: "Oleg A. Yurlov" <kris@spylog.com>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, admin@spylog.com
Subject: Re[2]: RAID sync
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 23:37:19 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8371332758.20011009233719@spylog.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15298.13864.971940.46509@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <1101445461994.20011001182753@spylog.com> <15298.13864.971940.46509@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au>


        Hi, Neil,

Tuesday, October 09, 2001, 3:26:32 AM, you wrote:

>>         Kernel 2.4.6.SuSE-4GB-SMP, 2 CPU, 2Gb RAM, 4 HDD SCSI, M/B Intel L440GX.
>> Messages from dmesg:
NB> snip
>> md: now!
>> md: sdb2's event counter: 0000001c
>> md: sda2's event counter: 0000001d
NB> snip
>>         Why RAID do not start synchronization ? It is normal ?

NB> Yes.
NB> A difference of 1 in the event counters isn't considered enough to
NB> treat on of them as old, and presumably the newest one (sda2) was
NB> marked clean.
NB> This could happen if the array was shut down cleanly, the new super
NB> block (with the dirty bit cleared) was written to sda2, but the new
NB> superblock was NOT written to sdb2 for some reason.  In this situation
NB> there is no need to resync the array.

NB> Could this be what happened in your case?

        Server  is  slow  die  (error in VM, server lost procfs) and rebooted by
'reboot -f'... I don't know what happen with RAID in this case.

NB> NeilBrown

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Oleg A. Yurlov aka Kris Werewolf, SysAdmin      OAY100-RIPN
mailto:kris@spylog.com                          +7 095 332-03-88


      parent reply	other threads:[~2001-10-09 19:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-01 14:27 Oleg A. Yurlov
2001-10-02  5:19 ` Jakob Østergaard
2001-10-08 23:26 ` Neil Brown
2001-10-09 19:32 ` Re[2]: " Oleg A. Yurlov
2001-10-10  5:58   ` Jakob Østergaard
2001-10-09 19:37 ` Oleg A. Yurlov [this message]

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