Am Mon, 24 Mar 2008 08:36:51 +0100 schrieb Janek Kozicki: > > Now I am alarmed that something might be wrong with the root > partition. From other posts I remember that mismatch count for swap > partitions is allowed to be nonzero. Apparently it can also happen when a file is truncated between the writes to the individual disks: http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg07546.html Or could it just be that it was writing when the power failed? > > I checked smart health status of HDDs with smartctl -H and the drives > are healthy. > > > Is mismatch count = 128 an indication of bad HDD? How to discover > which one is bad? > You could run a long SMART selftest. If the downtime doesn't matter, you could also boot from a live cd and run badblocks -n. -- Oliver -- 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
