> I would try to first run hardware diagnostics. Maybe you will get > "lucky" and one or more disks will fail diagnostics, which at least > means it will be easy to repair the problem. > > This could very well be situation where you have a lot of bad blocks > that have to get restriped, and parity has to be regenerated. Are > these the cheap consumer SATA disk drives, or enterprise class disks? I don't buy that for a second. First of all, restriping parity can and does occur in the background. Secondly, how is it the system writes many terrabytes of data post file creation, then chokes on a 0 byte file? -- 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
