Chris Murphy <lists <at> colorremedies.com> writes: > > > On Mar 13, 2013, at 10:03 PM, Joel Young <jdy <at> cryregarder.com> wrote: > > mdadm /dev/md0 --fail /dev/loop1 > > mdadm /dev/md0 --fail /dev/loop2 > > In this case md0 is failed. And thus md2 is failed. > Yes md2 is broken, but it isn't failed according to: [root@quickstep delme_images]# mdadm --detail /dev/md2 /dev/md2: Version : 1.2 Creation Time : Wed Mar 13 18:25:17 2013 Raid Level : raid0 Array Size : 406528 (397.07 MiB 416.28 MB) Raid Devices : 2 Total Devices : 2 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Wed Mar 13 18:25:17 2013 State : clean Active Devices : 2 Working Devices : 2 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Chunk Size : 512K Name : quickstep:2 (local to host quickstep) UUID : ca94a237:d63c25be:ff64fe0f:a41be44c Events : 0 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 9 1 0 active sync /dev/md0 1 9 3 1 active sync /dev/md1 In /var/log/messages I get a bunch of buffer I/O errors on the device and a warning in drivers/md/raid5.c get_active_stripe+0x683/0x7a0 [raid456]() Shouldn't md2 have automatically failed? Shouldn't writes immediately error out instead of pretending to complete? Joel -- 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