Thanks for the reply.
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 11:49:14PM -0500, Ross Vandegrift wrote:
>> I just began using RAID-1 (in 2.6.12) on a pair of SATA drives, and
>> now the hard disk drive light comes on during booting--about when the
>> RAID system is loaded--and stays on.
>
> Could you "cat /proc/mdstat"? If this is an initial creation and your
> disks are large, it's likely just the initial array build. If your
> array is synced and your disks are still being accessed, are you sure
> that there's no processes using your disk?
$ cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1]
md0 : active raid1 sda1[0] sdb1[1]
244195904 blocks [2/2] [UU]
unused devices: <none>
These is a new MD, with new LVM partitions running atop. It's a new,
minimal system. Exim, acpid, inetd, mdadm, syslogd, klogd, portmap,
rpc.statd...that's about it. I've never been sure how to tell which
processes are performing I/O.
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