Hi, I have a production server that I can't really experiment with, but I thought I'd warn / ask if this has been seen before. (Running stock 2.4.20 kernel, 2 raid-5 IDE (via external promise card) arrays LVM'd together). I had issues before where multiple drives kicked out simultaneously, so I added a hot spare that was large enough to contain a hot spare volume for each of my raid-5 arrays. Everything seemed great until I had a lockup that required an unclean poweroff/reboot, at which time I witnessed this: Both raid-5s needed to be resynced. Because a volume was shared between RAID-5s, the resync on one was delayed. However, after the first RAID resynced, one time the machine locked up... the other, the second resync froze at 4% for about 8-12 hours. In both cases I had to hard-power-off. I disconnected the hot spare drive, fired it up, and everything resynced nicely. Has this been seen? Is there a fix? I can't really provide much more info because I'm not willing to risk the data by experimenting.. Regards, Michael Stumpf - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
