On Thursday 11 January 2007 23:23, Neil Brown wrote: > On Thursday January 11, mikee@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Can someone tell me what this means please? I just received this in > > an email from one of my servers: > > .... > Same problem here, on different machines. But only with mdadm 2.6, with mdadm 2.5.5 no problems. First machine sends direct after starting mdadm in monitor mode: (kernel 2.6.20-rc3) ----------------------------- event=DeviceDisappeared mddev=/dev/md1 device=Wrong-Level Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] md1 : active raid0 sdb2[1] sda2[0] 3904704 blocks 16k chunks md2 : active raid0 sdb3[1] sda3[0] 153930112 blocks 16k chunks md3 : active raid5 sdf1[3] sde1[2] sdd1[1] sdc1[0] 732587712 blocks level 5, 16k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/4] [UUUU] md0 : active raid1 sdb1[1] sda1[0] 192640 blocks [2/2] [UU] unused devices: <none> ----------------------- and a second time for md2. Then every about 60 sec 4 times event=SpareActive mddev=/dev/md3 ****************************** Second machine sends about every 60sec 8 messages with: (kernel 2.6.19.2) -------------------------- event=SpareActive mddev=/dev/md0 device= Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid10] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] md1 : active raid1 sdb1[1] sda1[0] 979840 blocks [2/2] [UU] md3 : active raid5 sdh1[5] sdg1[4] sdf1[3] sde1[2] sdd1[1] sdc1[0] 4899200 blocks level 5, 8k chunk, algorithm 2 [6/6] [UUUUUU] md2 : active raid5 sdh2[7] sdg2[6] sdf2[5] sde2[4] sdd2[3] sdc2[2] sdb2[1] sda2[0] 6858880 blocks level 5, 4k chunk, algorithm 2 [8/8] [UUUUUUUU] md0 : active raid5 sdh3[7] sdg3[6] sdf3[5] sde3[4] sdd3[3] sdc3[2] sdb3[1] sda3[0] 235086656 blocks level 5, 16k chunk, algorithm 2 [8/8] [UUUUUUUU] unused devices: <none> -------------------------- Both machines had nerver seen any spare device, and there are no failing devices, everything works as expected. <earny> - 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