Hi. After a loss of communication with a drive in a 10 disk raid6 the disk was dropped out of the raid. I added it again with mdadm /dev/md16 --add /dev/sdbq1 The array resynced and I used the xfs filesystem on top of the raid. After a while I started noticing filesystem errors. I did echo check > /sys/block/md16/md/sync_action I got a lot of errors in /sys/block/md16/md/mismatch_cnt I failed and removed the disk I added before from the array. Did a check again (on the 9/10 array) echo check > /sys/block/md16/md/sync_action No errors /sys/block/md16/md/mismatch_cnt Wiped the superblock from /dev/sdbq1 and added it again to the array. Let it finish resyncing. Did a check and once again a lot of errors. The drive now has slot 10 instead of slot 3 which it had before the first error. Examining each device (see below) shows 11 slots and one failed? (0, 1, 2, failed, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 3) ? Any idea what is going on? mdadm --version mdadm - v2.6.9 - 10th March 2009 Centos 5.5 mdadm -D /dev/md16 /dev/md16: Version : 1.01 Creation Time : Thu Nov 25 09:15:54 2010 Raid Level : raid6 Array Size : 7809792000 (7448.00 GiB 7997.23 GB) Used Dev Size : 976224000 (931.00 GiB 999.65 GB) Raid Devices : 10 Total Devices : 10 Preferred Minor : 16 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Fri Jan 14 16:22:10 2011 State : clean Active Devices : 10 Working Devices : 10 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Chunk Size : 256K Name : 16 UUID : fcd585d0:f2918552:7090d8da:532927c8 Events : 90 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 145 0 active sync /dev/sdj1 1 65 1 1 active sync /dev/sdq1 2 65 17 2 active sync /dev/sdr1 10 68 65 3 active sync /dev/sdbq1 4 65 49 4 active sync /dev/sdt1 5 65 65 5 active sync /dev/sdu1 6 65 113 6 active sync /dev/sdx1 7 65 129 7 active sync /dev/sdy1 8 65 33 8 active sync /dev/sds1 9 65 145 9 active sync /dev/sdz1 mdadm -E /dev/sdj1 /dev/sdj1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.1 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : fcd585d0:f2918552:7090d8da:532927c8 Name : 16 Creation Time : Thu Nov 25 09:15:54 2010 Raid Level : raid6 Raid Devices : 10 Avail Dev Size : 1952448248 (931.00 GiB 999.65 GB) Array Size : 15619584000 (7448.00 GiB 7997.23 GB) Used Dev Size : 1952448000 (931.00 GiB 999.65 GB) Data Offset : 264 sectors Super Offset : 0 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 5db9c8f7:ce5b375e:757c53d0:04e89a06 Update Time : Fri Jan 14 16:22:10 2011 Checksum : 1f17a675 - correct Events : 90 Chunk Size : 256K Array Slot : 0 (0, 1, 2, failed, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 3) Array State : Uuuuuuuuuu 1 failed mdadm -E /dev/sdq1 /dev/sdq1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.1 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : fcd585d0:f2918552:7090d8da:532927c8 Name : 16 Creation Time : Thu Nov 25 09:15:54 2010 Raid Level : raid6 Raid Devices : 10 Avail Dev Size : 1952448248 (931.00 GiB 999.65 GB) Array Size : 15619584000 (7448.00 GiB 7997.23 GB) Used Dev Size : 1952448000 (931.00 GiB 999.65 GB) Data Offset : 264 sectors Super Offset : 0 sectors State : clean Device UUID : fb113255:fda391a6:7368a42b:1d6d4655 Update Time : Fri Jan 14 16:22:10 2011 Checksum : 6ed7b859 - correct Events : 90 Chunk Size : 256K Array Slot : 1 (0, 1, 2, failed, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 3) Array State : uUuuuuuuuu 1 failed mdadm -E /dev/sdr1 /dev/sdr1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.1 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : fcd585d0:f2918552:7090d8da:532927c8 Name : 16 Creation Time : Thu Nov 25 09:15:54 2010 Raid Level : raid6 Raid Devices : 10 Avail Dev Size : 1952448248 (931.00 GiB 999.65 GB) Array Size : 15619584000 (7448.00 GiB 7997.23 GB) Used Dev Size : 1952448000 (931.00 GiB 999.65 GB) Data Offset : 264 sectors Super Offset : 0 sectors State : clean Device UUID : afcb4dd8:2aa58944:40a32ed9:eb6178af Update Time : Fri Jan 14 16:22:10 2011 Checksum : 97a7a2d7 - correct Events : 90 Chunk Size : 256K Array Slot : 2 (0, 1, 2, failed, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 3) Array State : uuUuuuuuuu 1 failed mdadm -E /dev/sdbq1 /dev/sdbq1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.1 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : fcd585d0:f2918552:7090d8da:532927c8 Name : 16 Creation Time : Thu Nov 25 09:15:54 2010 Raid Level : raid6 Raid Devices : 10 Avail Dev Size : 1952448248 (931.00 GiB 999.65 GB) Array Size : 15619584000 (7448.00 GiB 7997.23 GB) Used Dev Size : 1952448000 (931.00 GiB 999.65 GB) Data Offset : 264 sectors Super Offset : 0 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 93c6ae7c:d8161356:7ada1043:d0c5a924 Update Time : Fri Jan 14 16:22:10 2011 Checksum : 2ca5aa8f - correct Events : 90 Chunk Size : 256K Array Slot : 10 (0, 1, 2, failed, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 3) Array State : uuuUuuuuuu 1 failed and so on for the rest of the drives. -- 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