Hi,
Thanks for your reply.
I should clarify that the crashes continue to be an issue in the absence
of any power outage so this issue is now independent of power. I
mentioned the UPS only with the thought that my problems may have been
caused by a sudden power-down.
Please let me know if there are any logs or status print outs I could
pull to help troubleshoot this.
Thanks Again,
- J
------ Original Message ------
From: "Stan Hoeppner" <stan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Justin Stephenson" <justin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 04/07/2014 3:34:17 PM
Subject: Re: RAID 6 crashes system when being accessed
On 7/4/2014 9:11 AM, Justin Stephenson wrote:
Hello,
I am experiencing some issues with my md raid. It is crashing my
system
when accessed with any "verve". The reboot initiates a resync of the
raid. I have gone through the crash/reboot/resynced a number of times
now and the crash happens within minutes of mounting the raid.
Here are some details:
- It is a raid 6 with 7 3TB devices.
- Formatted as EXT4
- mdadm v3.2.6 - 25th October 2012
- centos 6.5 kernel 2.6.32-431.3.1.el6.x86_64
- It has been running flawlessly for the previous 6 months.
- I have a cron script running that resyncs monthly.
- When the raid is unmounted, the system runs fine. (I have an
additional "dumb" hardware raid 1 for dailies attached to an ESATA
port.
This runs perfectly).
- I am in the process of re-syncing the raid 6 again right now.
- I have run an fsck on the raid volume after it was fully synced and
everything came up clean.
- there have been lots of power outages the last while with the hot
summer in Toronto. My UPS shuts the system down for me, though I
think I
can correlate the issues with the power outages.
This sounds like the UPS is cutting power to the system before the
shutdown sequence completes, before the array is stopped. This assumes
you are already using apcupsd or similar. If you are check the
configuration to make sure the system has plenty of time to shutdown
after the UPS sends notification to the system. If you are not, then
this will always happen as the UPS is simply cutting power when the
battery gets low.
Note that if the UPS is undersized for this system and only yields a
few
minutes of on-battery time, it may simply not have enough juice to keep
the machine up throughout the shutdown process.
In summary, either your shutdown software isn't configured properly,
you
are not using it, or the UPS is too small. This isn't an md problem.
Cheers,
Stan
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