On 2015-04-25 17:25 +1000, NeilBrown wrote: > Perfectly normal. Metadata is at the end, at least 64K from the end > and 64K aligned. Yes. Format 0.90. > And what were those messages about sda? The actual messages have been displaced by lockd's rambling but as I remember, it was this sort of thing : ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 ata1.00: BMDMA stat 0x4 ata1.00: failed command: READ DMA EXT ata1.00: cmd 25/00:80:a9:54:70/00:00:74:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 65536 in res 51/40:00:25:55:70/40:00:74:00:00/e0 Emask 0x9 (media error) ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR } ata1.00: error: { UNC } ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133 ata1: EH complete I ran e2fsck on copies of sda1 and sdc1. They are both heavily damaged, not just sdc1. Looks like I'm going to have to replace a disk and see. I'd like to avoid replacing two, though. Or going through more crashes. Does MD have a paranoid mode in which reading a sector from a RAID-1 device would not return successfully until it got matching data from at least two components ? -- 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