Re: High mismatch count on root device - how to best handle?

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On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 7:50 AM, Brad Campbell <lists2009@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 01/05/11 06:51, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:31 PM, Wolfgang Denk<wd@xxxxxxx> Âwrote:
>>>
>>> Dear Phil Turmel,
>>>
>>> In message<4DB8BEFE.3020009@xxxxxxxxxx> Âyou wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hmmm. ÂSince its not swap, this would make me worry about the hardware.
>>>> ÂHave you considered shuffling SATA port assignments to see if a pattern
>>>> shows up? ÂAlso consider moving some of the drive power load to another PS.
>>>
>>> I do not think this is hardware related. ÂI see this behaviour on at
>>> least 5 different machines which show no other problems except for the
>>> mismatch count in the RAID 1 partitins that hold the /boot partition.
>
> root@srv:/server# grep . /sys/block/md?/md/mismatch_cnt
> /sys/block/md0/md/mismatch_cnt:0
> /sys/block/md1/md/mismatch_cnt:128
> /sys/block/md2/md/mismatch_cnt:0
> /sys/block/md3/md/mismatch_cnt:41728
> /sys/block/md4/md/mismatch_cnt:896
> /sys/block/md5/md/mismatch_cnt:0
> /sys/block/md6/md/mismatch_cnt:4352
>
> root@srv:/server# cat /proc/mdstat | grep md[1346]
> md6 : active raid1 sdp6[0] sdo6[1]
> md4 : active raid1 sdp3[0] sdo3[1]
> md3 : active raid1 sdp2[0] sdo2[1]
> md1 : active raid1 sdp1[0] sdo1[1]
>
> root@srv:/server# cat /etc/fstab | grep md[1346]
> /dev/md1 Â Â Â Â/ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â ext4 errors=remount-ro,commit=30,noatime
> 0 1
> /dev/md6    Â/raid0     Âext4  Âdefaults,commit=30,noatime   Â0 1
> /dev/md4    Â/home      ext4  Âdefaults,commit=30,noatime   Â0 1
> /dev/md3    Ânone      Âswap  Âsw
>
> I see them _all_ the time on RAID1's..
>
> When I configured this system _years_ ago, I did not know any better, so
> it's a bit of a mish-mash.
>
> The machine also has a 10 drive RAID-6 and a 3 drive RAID-5. The only time
> I've seen mismatches on those is when I used a SIL 3132 controller and it
> trashed the RAID-6.
>
> Brad
>

Brad,
   Thanks very much for sharing the data and your experiences with
this. I'll simply ignore it on the RAID1's from now on.

Cheers,
Mark
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