md/raid:md0: Disk failure on loop3, disabling device. mdadm --manage /dev/md0 --re-add /dev/loop3 mdadm: Cannot open /dev/loop3: Device or resource busy # losetup -d /dev/loop3 # losetup -a /dev/loop1: 0 /media/live1/node1.img /dev/loop2: 0 /media/live2/node2.img /dev/loop3: 0 /media/live3/node3.img what? # lsof | grep "loop3" loop3 2577 root cwd DIR 0,15 0 160 / loop3 2577 root rtd DIR 0,15 0 160 / loop3 2577 root txt unknown /proc/2577/exe # ps | grep "2577" 2577 root 0 SW< [loop3] # reboot # mdadm --manage /dev/md0 --re-add /dev/loop3 mdadm: re-added /dev/loop3 root@OpenWrt:~# cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] md0 : active raid5 loop3[3] loop1[0] loop2[1] 3878157312 blocks super 1.2 level 5, 512k chunk, algorithm 2 [3/2] [UU_] [>....................] recovery = 0.0% (2596/1939078656) finish=24783.6min speed=1298K/sec bitmap: 5/15 pages [20KB], 65536KB chunk WHAT? On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 6:08 PM, Matthew M. Dean <fireculex@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > So I've been running a raid 5 using an openwrt box with 3 loop files > and lvm. All was well for over a year. Now /dev/loop3 keeps dropping > from the raid > > The first time it dropped was due to the network drive actually > locking up, it tried to start with only 1 drive and failed. I had to > --force the loop files to start, which 2 of them actually did. I could > no longer --re-add the drive. > > Using --add did add the drive to the raid but the sync started at 0% > so have to wait for it to rebuild. 11mb/sec takes a while on a 1.5 > terabyte array. > > after 82% sync the router locked up I think to a oom condition, 128mb > only. /dev/loop3 was dropped from the array again. I was able to > --re-add. 0% SYNC AGAIN. ~30 hours wasted. This has never happened. > > What has changed? > > I upgraded from a 3.10 kernel to 3.14 and from mdadm 3.2.6 to 3.3.2 > > Aren't bitmap's supposed to fix this? Are they useless now? -- 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