On Wednesday February 23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   The Linux RAID crushes when recuntructing a disk.
> 
...
> 
>   I use a 2.4.29 kernel (on a Debian sarge GNU/Linux).
...
> unused devices: <none>
> Personalities : [raid1] 
> read_ahead 1024 sectors
> md1 : active raid1 sdb1[2] sdd1[0] sdc1[1]
>       999872 blocks [2/2] [UU]
>       
> unused devices: <none>
> centralmad:~# DEVICE=/dev/sdc1 ; raidsetfaulty /dev/md1 $DEVICE ; 
> raidhotremove /dev/md1 $DEVICE ; cat /proc/mdstat; 
> Personalities : [raid1] 
> read_ahead 1024 sectors
> md1 : active raid1 sdb1[2] sdd1[0]
>       999872 blocks [2/1] [U_]
>       [>....................]  recovery =  0.0% (0/999872) finish=166.6min 
> speed=0K/sec
> unused devices: <none>


There is a race condition in the 2.4 kernels.  If you fail a drive and
then removing it instantly, you can hit problems.  My advice is to not
do that. (or use 2.6).

NeilBrown
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