David Dougall <davidd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If I am running software raid1 and a disk device starts throwing I/O > errors, Is the filesystem supposed to see any indication of this? I Usually this should not happen. Presumed a) this device is not the only active device in this RAID1 and b) this device is the only failing one. > I have servers with xfs as the filesystem and xfs will start to throw I/O > errors when a disk starts acting up even with software raid in between. It could be helpful to show the messages appearing (dmesg), the RAID setup (cat /proc/mdstat) and the mount (cat /etc/fstab /etc/mtab or /proc/mounts). regards, Mario -- <jv> Oh well, config <jv> one actually wonders what force in the universe is holding it <jv> and makes it working <Beeth> chances and accidents :) - 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