Justin Piszcz (jpiszcz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote on 23 February 2008 10:44: > > >On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, Justin Piszcz wrote: > >> >> >> On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, Michael Tokarev wrote: >> >>> Justin Piszcz wrote: >>>> Should I be worried? >>>> >>>> Fri Feb 22 20:00:05 EST 2008: Executing RAID health check for /dev/md3... >>>> Fri Feb 22 21:00:06 EST 2008: cat /sys/block/md3/md/mismatch_cnt >>>> Fri Feb 22 21:00:06 EST 2008: 936 >>>> Fri Feb 22 21:00:09 EST 2008: Executing repair on /dev/md3 >>>> Fri Feb 22 22:00:10 EST 2008: cat /sys/block/md3/md/mismatch_cnt >>>> Fri Feb 22 22:00:10 EST 2008: 936 >>> >>> Your /dev/md3 is a swap, right? >>> If it's swap, it's quite common to see mismatches here. I don't know >>> why, and I don't think it's correct (there should be a bug somewhere). >>> If it's not swap, there should be no mismatches, UNLESS you initially >>> built your array with --assume-clean. >>> In any case it's good to understand where those mismatches comes from >>> in the first place. >>> >>> As of the difference (or, rather, lack thereof) of the mismatched >>> blocks after check and repair - that's exactly what expected. Check >>> found 936 mismatches, and repair corrected exactly the same amount >>> of them. I.e., if you run check again after repair, you should see >>> 0 mismatches. >>> >>> /mjt >>> >> >> My /dev/md3 is my main RAID 5 partition. Even after repair, it showed 936, I >> will re-run repair. Also, I did not build my array with --assume-clean and I >> run my check > array once a week. >> The only situation where there could be mismatches on a clean array is if you created it with --assume-clean. After a repair, a check should give zero mismatches, without reboot. Of course I'm supposing your hardware is working without glitches... >After a reboot & check, it is back to 0-- interesting.. Looks like a bug... Which kernel version? - 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