i don´t know but this happened with me on a hp server, with linux 2,6,37 i changed kernel to a older release and the problem ended, check with neil and others md guys what´s the real problem maybe realtime module and others changes inside kernel are the problem, maybe not... just a quick solution idea: try a older kernel 2011/4/4 Brad Campbell <lists2009@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On 03/04/11 23:47, Roberto Spadim wrote: >> >> what kernel version? more informations about your linux box? > > The kernel version and architecture were the first 2 lines of the E-mail you > top posted over. > > What would you like to know about the box? It's a 6 core Phenom-II with 16G > of ram. 2 LSI SAS 9240 controllers configured with 10 x 1TB SATA Drives in a > RAID-6(md0) & 3 x 750GB SATA drives in a RAID-5(md2). > > The boot drives are a pair of 1TB SATA drives in multiple RAID-1's using the > on-board AMD chipset controller and there is a 64GB SSD on a separate PCI-E > Marvell 7042m Controller. > > The array in question is : > > root@srv:~# mdadm --detail /dev/md0 > /dev/md0: > Version : 1.2 > Creation Time : Sat Jan 8 11:25:17 2011 > Raid Level : raid6 > Array Size : 7814078464 (7452.09 GiB 8001.62 GB) > Used Dev Size : 976759808 (931.51 GiB 1000.20 GB) > Raid Devices : 10 > Total Devices : 9 > Persistence : Superblock is persistent > > Update Time : Mon Apr 4 13:53:59 2011 > State : clean, degraded, recovering > Active Devices : 9 > Working Devices : 9 > Failed Devices : 0 > Spare Devices : 0 > > Layout : left-symmetric > Chunk Size : 512K > > Reshape Status : 29% complete > New Chunksize : 64K > > Name : srv:server (local to host srv) > UUID : d00a11d7:fe0435af:07c8d4d6:e3b8e34e > Events : 429198 > > Number Major Minor RaidDevice State > 0 8 32 0 active sync /dev/sdc > 1 8 176 1 active sync /dev/sdl > 2 8 192 2 active sync /dev/sdm > 3 8 80 3 active sync /dev/sdf > 4 8 16 4 active sync /dev/sdb > 5 8 96 5 active sync /dev/sdg > 6 0 0 6 removed > 7 8 64 7 active sync /dev/sde > 8 8 0 8 active sync /dev/sda > 9 8 112 9 active sync /dev/sdh > root@srv:~# > > Subsequent investigation has shown sdd has a pending reallocation and I can > only assume the unidentified IO error was as a result of tripping up on > that. It still does not explain why all IO to the array froze after the > drive was kicked. > > -- > 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 > -- Roberto Spadim Spadim Technology / SPAEmpresarial -- 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