Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 07:20:31 -0400 From: Michael Conlen <m@obmail.net> To: Sandy Rutherford <sandy@krvarr.bc.ca> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Disk inconsistency Message-ID: <4FD27FD3-A0CB-47DB-BB33-945B5BF5A3BE@obmail.net> In-Reply-To: <17210.31132.778408.755267@szamoca.krvarr.bc.ca> References: <BF96F69F-574B-4D17-8314-9812AF86D678@obmail.net> <17210.31132.778408.755267@szamoca.krvarr.bc.ca>
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On Sep 28, 2005, at 7:08 AM, Sandy Rutherford wrote: > A month ago I had one drive in a raid 1 volume "intermittently fail". > I started seeing occasional (as in only once or twice per week) read > errors in the logs for the volume in question; however, the drive > didn't fail catastrophically enough for me to identify which one of > the 2 drives was bad. After this happened a few times, I started > seeing exactly the behaviour that you described above. At the time, I > conjectured that the mirrored disks had become inconsistent. > Fortunately, I was able to identify the bad drive soon after. > After replacing the drive and rebuilding the redundant data, the > system has been perfectly stable. > > You didn't state your raid setup (hardware or software?). In my case, > I am using hardware raid (a Mylex extremeRAID 1100 controller) with > SCSI disks. I'm using a IBM FAStT-100 disk array with 8 drives in a RAID-10 (all hardware RAID on the disk array). I think my only option is to pull an incremental backup and rebuild the file system. Thanks for the info. -- Michael Conlen
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