He mentioned he was on linux 2.4 - an unclean reboot will almost always cause reconstruction there, as opposed to the aggressively clean 2.6 which almost never reconstructs. I'd imagine with 800+ boxen, there's a few reboots a day no matter what you're doing -Mike Derek Piper wrote: > Why would rebooting the machines cause raid reconstruction? that > sounds pretty bad to need to do that. Shouldn't that be addressed > first? Then you might not need to worry about reconstruction so much. > > Derek > > On 5/25/05, danci@xxxxxxxxx <danci@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >>The problem is that usually fails with 'hdX: lost interrupt' if the disks >>are busy due to RAID reconstruction - which happens a lot as some of the >>800+ machines get rebooted for various reasons... >> > > > - 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