Re: [CentOS] question on software raid

2011-04-04 Thread Kay Diederichs
On 04/01/2011 05:32 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: dmesg is not reporting any issues. The /proc/mdstat looks fine. md0 : active raid1 sdb1[1] sda1[0] X blocks [2/2] [UU] however /var/log/messages says: smartd[3392] Device /dev/sda 20 offline uncorrectable sectors The machine is running

Re: [CentOS] question on software raid

2011-04-04 Thread Jeremy Sanders
Scott Silva wrote: Could it be that the bad sectors so far have been in unused areas? Once a drive runs out of sectors to map corrections to, I would really think about replacing it. This advice is so often repeated by people on lists. This is a pretty normal function of modern hard drives.

Re: [CentOS] question on software raid

2011-04-03 Thread William Warren
On 4/1/2011 11:32 AM, Jerry Geis wrote: Device /dev/sda 20 offline uncorrectable sectors my .02 i would replace the drive. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] question on software raid

2011-04-01 Thread Jerry Geis
dmesg is not reporting any issues. The /proc/mdstat looks fine. md0 : active raid1 sdb1[1] sda1[0] X blocks [2/2] [UU] however /var/log/messages says: smartd[3392] Device /dev/sda 20 offline uncorrectable sectors The machine is running fine.. raid array looks good - what is up with

Re: [CentOS] question on software raid

2011-04-01 Thread Scott Silva
on 4/1/2011 8:32 AM Jerry Geis spake the following: dmesg is not reporting any issues. The /proc/mdstat looks fine. md0 : active raid1 sdb1[1] sda1[0] X blocks [2/2] [UU] however /var/log/messages says: smartd[3392] Device /dev/sda 20 offline uncorrectable sectors The machine

Re: [CentOS] question on software raid

2011-04-01 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Jerry Geis wrote: dmesg is not reporting any issues. The /proc/mdstat looks fine. md0 : active raid1 sdb1[1] sda1[0] X blocks [2/2] [UU] however /var/log/messages says: smartd[3392] Device /dev/sda 20 offline uncorrectable sectors The machine is running fine.. raid array looks

Re: [CentOS] question on software raid

2011-04-01 Thread Steve Brooks
On Fri, 1 Apr 2011, Jerry Geis wrote: dmesg is not reporting any issues. The /proc/mdstat looks fine. md0 : active raid1 sdb1[1] sda1[0] X blocks [2/2] [UU] however /var/log/messages says: smartd[3392] Device /dev/sda 20 offline uncorrectable sectors The machine is running fine..

[CentOS] question about software Raid 1

2008-09-21 Thread Nataraj
Does software raid 1 compare checksums or otherwise verify that the same bits are coming from both disks during reads? What I'm interested in, is whether bit errors that were somehow undetected by the hardware would be detected by the raid 1 software. Thanks, Nataraj

Re: [CentOS] question about software Raid 1

2008-09-21 Thread John R Pierce
Nataraj wrote: Does software raid 1 compare checksums or otherwise verify that the same bits are coming from both disks during reads? What I'm interested in, is whether bit errors that were somehow undetected by the hardware would be detected by the raid 1 software. under normal operation,

Re: [CentOS] question about software Raid 1

2008-09-21 Thread Nataraj
On Sun, 2008-09-21 at 11:12 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: Nataraj wrote: Does software raid 1 compare checksums or otherwise verify that the same bits are coming from both disks during reads? What I'm interested in, is whether bit errors that were somehow undetected by the hardware would

Re: [CentOS] question about software Raid 1

2008-09-21 Thread John R Pierce
Nataraj wrote: Thank you John. I'm pretty sure that raid 5 or 6 would be safe, since there is parity checking, however it sounds like this may not be the case for raid 1. the parity on raid5/6 is only checked if you run some sort of scrub, and its used to regenerate a failed drive onto a

Re: [CentOS] question about software Raid 1

2008-09-21 Thread Robert Arkiletian
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Nataraj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does software raid 1 compare checksums or otherwise verify that the same bits are coming from both disks during reads? What I'm interested in, No. Reads are distributed over disks to increase performance. is whether bit