> I haven't seen any of those messages, so this is the first case > happening. I figured you were just busy, but wanted to see if anyone else could guide my debugging before my boss made me give up and do RAID-5 :) Thanks for the reply. > Can you create failures by creating a full array and then fail out > drives? That would rule out problems with the way mdadm creates the > array. Yes, same problem. If I create a full array with 6 devices, wait for it to finish the synchronizing, then fail the first drive, I see the same corruption. See attached r6test-full.sh to demonstrate. > My current guess based on what I've seen so far is that it's a bug > in mdadm in creating arrays with exactly 1 missing drive, as opposed > to a kernel bug. FWIW, this does occur with an array created with 2 missing drives, as well. -jim
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