Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx> writes:
> On Tuesday May 26, goswin-v-b@xxxxxx wrote:
>> hank peng <pengxihan@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>> > Only one of disks in this RAID1failed, it should continue to work with
>> > degraded state.
>> > Why LVM complained with I/O errors??
>>
>> That is because the last drive in a raid1 can not fail:
>>
>> md9 : active raid1 ram1[1] ram0[2](F)
>> 65472 blocks [2/1] [_U]
>>
>> # mdadm --fail /dev/md9 /dev/ram1
>> mdadm: set /dev/ram1 faulty in /dev/md9
>>
>> md9 : active raid1 ram1[1] ram0[2](F)
>> 65472 blocks [2/1] [_U]
>>
>> See, still marked working.
>>
>> MfG
>> Goswin
>>
>> PS: Why doesn't mdadm or kernel give a message about not failing?
>
> -ENOPATCH :-)
>
> You would want to rate limit any such message from the kernel, but it
> might make sense to have it.
>
> NeilBrown
No rate risk in mdadm --fail reporting a failure to fail the device.
MfG
Goswin
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