On Wednesday February 23, jrojomartinez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi, > > The Linux RAID crushes when recuntructing a disk. > ... > > I use a 2.4.29 kernel (on a Debian sarge GNU/Linux). ... > unused devices: <none> > Personalities : [raid1] > read_ahead 1024 sectors > md1 : active raid1 sdb1[2] sdd1[0] sdc1[1] > 999872 blocks [2/2] [UU] > > unused devices: <none> > centralmad:~# DEVICE=/dev/sdc1 ; raidsetfaulty /dev/md1 $DEVICE ; raidhotremove /dev/md1 $DEVICE ; cat /proc/mdstat; > Personalities : [raid1] > read_ahead 1024 sectors > md1 : active raid1 sdb1[2] sdd1[0] > 999872 blocks [2/1] [U_] > [>....................] recovery = 0.0% (0/999872) finish=166.6min speed=0K/sec > unused devices: <none> There is a race condition in the 2.4 kernels. If you fail a drive and then removing it instantly, you can hit problems. My advice is to not do that. (or use 2.6). NeilBrown - 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
