Re: What the heck happened to my array?

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hi neil, with time i could help changin sysfs information (add unit
information at output, and remove it (unit text) from input)
what's the current kernel version of develop?

2011/4/8 NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx>:
> On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 09:19:01 +0800 Brad Campbell <lists2009@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> On 05/04/11 14:10, NeilBrown wrote:
>>
>> > I would suggest:
>> >    copy anything that you need off, just in case - if you can.
>> >
>> >    Kill the mdadm that is running in the back ground.  This will mean that
>> >    if the machine crashes your array will be corrupted, but you are thinking
>> >    of rebuilding it any, so that isn't the end of the world.
>> >    In /sys/block/md0/md
>> >       cat suspend_hi>  suspend_lo
>> >       cat component_size>  sync_max
>> >
>>
>> root@srv:/sys/block/md0/md# cat /proc/mdstat
>> Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid10] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4]
>> md0 : active raid6 sdc[0] sdd[6](S) sdl[1](S) sdh[9] sda[8] sde[7]
>> sdg[5] sdb[4] sdf[3] sdm[2]
>>        7814078464 blocks super 1.2 level 6, 512k chunk, algorithm 2
>> [10/8] [U_UUUU_UUU]
>>        [=================>...]  reshape = 88.2% (861696000/976759808)
>> finish=3713.3min speed=516K/sec
>>
>> md2 : active raid5 sdi[0] sdk[3] sdj[1]
>>        1465146368 blocks super 1.2 level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [3/3]
>> [UUU]
>>
>> md6 : active raid1 sdp6[0] sdo6[1]
>>        821539904 blocks [2/2] [UU]
>>
>> md5 : active raid1 sdp5[0] sdo5[1]
>>        104864192 blocks [2/2] [UU]
>>
>> md4 : active raid1 sdp3[0] sdo3[1]
>>        20980800 blocks [2/2] [UU]
>>
>> md3 : active raid1 sdp2[0] sdo2[1]
>>        8393856 blocks [2/2] [UU]
>>
>> md1 : active raid1 sdp1[0] sdo1[1]
>>        20980736 blocks [2/2] [UU]
>>
>> unused devices: <none>
>> root@srv:/sys/block/md0/md# cat component_size > sync_max
>> cat: write error: Device or resource busy
>
> Sorry, I should have checked the source code.
>
>
>   echo max > sync_max
>
> is what you want.
> Or just a much bigger number.
>
>>
>> root@srv:/sys/block/md0/md# cat suspend_hi suspend_lo
>> 13788774400
>> 13788774400
>
> They are the same so that is good - nothing will be suspended.
>
>>
>> root@srv:/sys/block/md0/md# grep . sync_*
>> sync_action:reshape
>> sync_completed:1723392000 / 1953519616
>> sync_force_parallel:0
>> sync_max:1723392000
>> sync_min:0
>> sync_speed:281
>> sync_speed_max:200000 (system)
>> sync_speed_min:200000 (local)
>>
>> So I killed mdadm, then did the cat suspend_hi > suspend_lo.. but as you
>> can see it won't let me change sync_max. The array above reports
>> 516K/sec, but that was just on its way down to 0 on a time based
>> average. It was not moving at all.
>>
>> I then tried stopping the array, restarting it with mdadm 3.1.4 which
>> immediately segfaulted and left the array in state resync=DELAYED.
>>
>> I issued the above commands again, which succeeded this time but while
>> the array looked good, it was not resyncing :
>> root@srv:/sys/block/md0/md# cat /proc/mdstat
>> Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid10] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4]
>> md0 : active raid6 sdc[0] sdd[6](S) sdl[1](S) sdh[9] sda[8] sde[7]
>> sdg[5] sdb[4] sdf[3] sdm[2]
>>        7814078464 blocks super 1.2 level 6, 512k chunk, algorithm 2
>> [10/8] [U_UUUU_UUU]
>>        [=================>...]  reshape = 88.2% (861698048/976759808)
>> finish=30203712.0min speed=0K/sec
>>
>> md2 : active raid5 sdi[0] sdk[3] sdj[1]
>>        1465146368 blocks super 1.2 level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [3/3]
>> [UUU]
>>
>> md6 : active raid1 sdp6[0] sdo6[1]
>>        821539904 blocks [2/2] [UU]
>>
>> md5 : active raid1 sdp5[0] sdo5[1]
>>        104864192 blocks [2/2] [UU]
>>
>> md4 : active raid1 sdp3[0] sdo3[1]
>>        20980800 blocks [2/2] [UU]
>>
>> md3 : active raid1 sdp2[0] sdo2[1]
>>        8393856 blocks [2/2] [UU]
>>
>> md1 : active raid1 sdp1[0] sdo1[1]
>>        20980736 blocks [2/2] [UU]
>>
>> unused devices: <none>
>>
>> root@srv:/sys/block/md0/md# grep . sync*
>> sync_action:reshape
>> sync_completed:1723396096 / 1953519616
>> sync_force_parallel:0
>> sync_max:976759808
>> sync_min:0
>> sync_speed:0
>> sync_speed_max:200000 (system)
>> sync_speed_min:200000 (local)
>>
>> I stopped the array and restarted it with mdadm 3.2.1 and it continued
>> along its merry way.
>>
>> Not an issue, and I don't much care if it blew something up, but I
>> thought it worthy of a follow up.
>>
>> If there is anything you need tested while it's in this state I've got ~
>> 1000 minutes of resync time left and I'm happy to damage it if requested.
>
> No thank - I think I know what happened.  Main problem is that there is
> confusion between 'k' and 'sectors' and there are random other values that
> sometimes work (like 'max') and I never remember which is which.  sysfs in md
> is a bit of a mess.... one day I hope to completely replace it (with back
> compatibility of course...)
>
> Thanks for the feedback.
>
> NeilBrown
>
>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Brad
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