I just had a disk die in a 2.6.16 (debian kernel) raid1 server, and it's triggered an oops in raid1. There are a bunch of 2-partition mirrors: Personalities : [raid1] md5 : active raid1 hdc7[2](F) hda7[1] 77625984 blocks [2/1] [_U] md4 : active raid1 hdc6[2](F) hda6[1] 16000640 blocks [2/1] [_U] md3 : active raid1 hdc5[2](F) hda5[1] 12570752 blocks [2/1] [_U] md2 : active raid1 hdc3[2](F) hda3[1] 8000256 blocks [2/1] [_U] md1 : active raid1 hdc2[2](F) hda2[1] 2000000 blocks [2/1] [_U] md0 : active raid1 hdc1[2](F) hda1[1] 995904 blocks [2/1] [_U] unused devices: <none> amidst all the failure messages for these arrays in dmesg, I have this: RAID1 conf printout: --- wd:1 rd:2 disk 1, wo:0, o:1, dev:hda1 Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000088 printing eip: f0831ea8 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0002 [#1] Modules linked in: thermal fan button processor ac battery e1000 rtc ext3 jbd mbcache raid1 md_mod ide_disk generic siimage ide_core evdev mousedev CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<f0831ea8>] Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00010246 (2.6.16-2-686 #1) EIP is at raid1d+0x2c8/0x4c3 [raid1] eax: 00000008 ebx: 00000000 ecx: c9c60100 edx: b1a1ac60 esi: 00000000 edi: dd67c6c0 ebp: efd52740 esp: b1ac1f08 ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process md5_raid1 (pid: 1001, threadinfo=b1ac0000 task=b1bc5a70) Stack: <0>000000b1 5e341300 003e0387 00000001 00000001 00000008 00000008 025e1458 00000000 b1bc5b98 00000001 efd5275c b1ac1fa4 7fffffff b026e32b 00000005 b1ac0000 b1ac1f84 7fffffff 00000000 b1a1aba0 b1ac1f84 b1ac1fa4 7fffffff Call Trace: [<b026e32b>] schedule_timeout+0x13/0x8e [<f0864095>] md_thread+0xe3/0xfb [md_mod] [<b012522e>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x3a [<b026dced>] schedule+0x45f/0x4cd [<b012522e>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x3a [<f0863fb2>] md_thread+0x0/0xfb [md_mod] [<b0124efe>] kthread+0x79/0xa3 [<b0124e85>] kthread+0x0/0xa3 [<b01012cd>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb Code: 83 7c 24 10 00 8b 47 20 0f 84 dc 00 00 00 89 74 24 0c 39 c6 74 63 85 f6 75 03 8b 75 08 4e 8b 55 04 6b c6 0c 8b 1c 02 8b 44 24 14 <01> 83 88 00 00 00 85 db 74 3f 8b 43 70 a8 04 74 38 6a 01 ff 75 end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 26464418 The server is still running, but processes (like sync(1)) are getting hung in D state. Jason - 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