Hello, Occasionally my system don't shutdown cleanly and almost all time mdadm kicks one of the disks on the RAID5 array. Is there anything I can do to help prevent this? I'm using sw raid 5 with 3 x 3TB Hitachi Deskstar (7K3000 HDS723030ALA640 64MB). -------- /dev/md2: Version : 1.2 Creation Time : Thu Jul 28 07:23:45 2011 Raid Level : raid5 Array Size : 5706313728 (5441.96 GiB 5843.27 GB) Used Dev Size : 2853156864 (2720.98 GiB 2921.63 GB) Raid Devices : 3 Total Devices : 3 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Thu Mar 1 18:59:21 2012 State : clean, degraded, recovering Active Devices : 2 Working Devices : 3 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 1 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Rebuild Status : 14% complete Name : Emperor:2 (local to host Emperor) UUID : a9f823df:05acab4f:1b02cfb9:70173894 Events : 792 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 3 0 active sync /dev/sda3 4 8 19 1 spare rebuilding /dev/sdb3 3 8 35 2 active sync /dev/sdc3 -------- /dev/sda3: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : a9f823df:05acab4f:1b02cfb9:70173894 Name : Emperor:2 (local to host Emperor) Creation Time : Thu Jul 28 07:23:45 2011 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 3 Avail Dev Size : 5706314639 (2720.98 GiB 2921.63 GB) Array Size : 11412627456 (5441.96 GiB 5843.27 GB) Used Dev Size : 5706313728 (2720.98 GiB 2921.63 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : clean Device UUID : abafe531:af25e9ab:54bba541:775a1c11 Update Time : Thu Mar 1 19:11:53 2012 Checksum : 3b777715 - correct Events : 794 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 0 Array State : AAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing) /dev/sdb3: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x2 Array UUID : a9f823df:05acab4f:1b02cfb9:70173894 Name : Emperor:2 (local to host Emperor) Creation Time : Thu Jul 28 07:23:45 2011 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 3 Avail Dev Size : 5706314639 (2720.98 GiB 2921.63 GB) Array Size : 11412627456 (5441.96 GiB 5843.27 GB) Used Dev Size : 5706313728 (2720.98 GiB 2921.63 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Recovery Offset : 713289232 sectors State : clean Device UUID : adefab73:b8a595de:666a951b:41513425 Update Time : Thu Mar 1 19:11:53 2012 Checksum : c875cb12 - correct Events : 794 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 1 Array State : AAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing) /dev/sdc3: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : a9f823df:05acab4f:1b02cfb9:70173894 Name : Emperor:2 (local to host Emperor) Creation Time : Thu Jul 28 07:23:45 2011 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 3 Avail Dev Size : 5706314639 (2720.98 GiB 2921.63 GB) Array Size : 11412627456 (5441.96 GiB 5843.27 GB) Used Dev Size : 5706313728 (2720.98 GiB 2921.63 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 9d3685e5:cbc37737:d8b864e4:452a5718 Update Time : Thu Mar 1 19:11:53 2012 Checksum : 249f6979 - correct Events : 794 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 2 Array State : AAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing) --------- --john -- 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