On Tuesday 19 of July 2011 21:12:40 Roman Mamedov wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:55:35 +0200 > > Pavel Herrmann <morpheus.ibis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > the problem is that the rebuilt array is corrupted. most of the data is > > fine, but every several MB there is an error (which doesn't look like > > being caused by a crash), effectively invalidating all data on the > > drive (about 7TB, mainly HD video) > > Which model of SATA controller/HBA do you use? 4 drives on ahci (ICH10R), 4 drives on sata_mv (adaptec 1430SA) > Kernel version, mdadm version? 2.6.33-gentoo-r1, mdadm - v3.1.5 - 23rd March 2011 > Anything unusual in SMART reports of any of the drives (e.g. a nonzero UDMA > CRC Error count)? one current-pending-sector on the drive that was removed, and one on one more > > > I do monthly scans, so the redundancy syndromes should have been > > up-to-date, the array is made of 8 disks, the setup is ext4 on lvm on > > mdraid > > Did you notice any nonzero mismatch_cnt during those scans? where would I find this? syslog for last scan is just: Jul 2 08:40:01 Bloomfield kernel: [83795.157876] md: data-check of RAID array md0 Jul 2 08:40:01 Bloomfield mdadm[2613]: RebuildStarted event detected on md device /dev/md0 Jul 2 09:46:41 Bloomfield mdadm[2613]: Rebuild21 event detected on md device /dev/md0 Jul 2 10:53:21 Bloomfield mdadm[2613]: Rebuild42 event detected on md device /dev/md0 Jul 2 12:00:02 Bloomfield mdadm[2613]: Rebuild61 event detected on md device /dev/md0 Jul 2 13:40:02 Bloomfield mdadm[2613]: Rebuild82 event detected on md device /dev/md0 Jul 2 16:02:46 Bloomfield kernel: [110348.161984] md: md0: data-check done. Jul 2 16:02:47 Bloomfield mdadm[2613]: RebuildFinished event detected on md device /dev/md0, component device mismatches found: 72 I presume the nonzero "mismatches found" is a bad thing? just to mention, all files were fine two dayss ago (I do keep md5sums of all files to check for bit rot) -- 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