Today I noticed my logs overflowing, since it is continuously printing this: Oct 11 18:11:35 dozer kernel: raid5: switching cache buffer size, 4096 --> 512 Oct 11 18:11:36 dozer kernel: raid5: switching cache buffer size, 512 --> 4096 Oct 11 18:11:36 dozer kernel: raid5: switching cache buffer size, 4096 --> 512 Oct 11 18:11:36 dozer kernel: raid5: switching cache buffer size, 512 --> 4096 Oct 11 18:11:36 dozer kernel: raid5: switching cache buffer size, 4096 --> 512 Oct 11 18:11:37 dozer kernel: raid5: switching cache buffer size, 512 --> 4096 However, my other raid5 system doesn't do this. But that is not the exact same system, so that is not telling very much... Is this an error, or some other misalignment ? Can I get it to stop ? Info below- System SuSE 9.0 # uname -a Linux dozer 2.4.21-243-default #1 Thu Aug 12 15:22:14 UTC 2004 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] [raid5] read_ahead 1024 sectors md1 : active raid5 hda3[2] hdc3[0] hde3[1] hdg3[3] 233625024 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/4] [UUUU] md0 : active raid1 hda1[2] hdc1[0] hde1[1] 1953408 blocks [3/3] [UUU] unused devices: <none> # mdadm --detail /dev/md1 /dev/md1: Version : 00.90.00 Creation Time : Tue Sep 7 05:20:04 2004 Raid Level : raid5 Array Size : 233625024 (222.80 GiB 239.23 GB) Device Size : 77875008 (74.27 GiB 79.74 GB) Raid Devices : 4 Total Devices : 5 Preferred Minor : 1 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Mon Oct 11 18:08:01 2004 State : dirty, no-errors Active Devices : 4 Working Devices : 4 Failed Devices : 1 Spare Devices : 0 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 64K Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 22 3 0 active sync /dev/hdc3 1 33 3 1 active sync /dev/hde3 2 3 3 2 active sync /dev/hda3 3 34 3 3 active sync /dev/hdg3 UUID : 4ca9411d:ed1db468:9c97b407:404788e5 Events : 0.13 Note: I hate to say it, but mdadm is mistaken about those figures... There are only 4 (four) devices in the system, not 5. And there never was any failed drive. Yes, /proc/mdstat does give the correct info. Maarten -- When I answered where I wanted to go today, they just hung up -- Unknown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html