[ ... ] >> Why is the system unresponsive, shouldn't it still be OK >> after a drive failure? There is a bit of a difference between a "drive failure" and some/several bad sectors on a drive. It is also to wonder whether the partially defective drive has been "failed" and "removed" from the MD set and perhaps "deleted" using '/sys/block/sdb/device/delete'. > Hm, I'm seeing this in dmesg, could it be related? (ioctl lock) > [425480.928740] md/raid:md0: read error corrected (8 sectors at > 223617240 on sdb1) Note the "read error corrected" (*corrected*) and that is is "8 sectors" may indicate it is one of the drives with 4096B sectors that is configured as if it has 512B ones. [ ... ] Overall it is likely that you have just implicitly discovered how important short settings for Error Recovery Control are, and to choose drives that allow you to set them: http://www.sabi.co.uk/blog/1103Mar.html#110331 -- 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
