On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 10:06 PM, <travis+ml-linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 08:58:50PM -0700, travis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> Yeah, *when I created this disk layout* I might have created a GPT in >> partition 1. >> >> That was probably a year or more ago. >> >> That has nothing to do with this crash, which is perhaps the fourth of >> its kind. >> >> I haven't touched the box in weeks before this happened, when I was >> away on vacation. Although, it could have lurked for some time, >> and only been uncovered by a crash or kpanic. > > I certainly have not repartitioned the disks multiple times. There's > no need for that. It leads to these sort of problems. > > The kernel does panic from time to time. > > To repeat, this box was *completely unattended* for several weeks > before the crash. No administration at all. I simply rsync'd things > off it as necessary. As a non-root user. > > I am curious about the fact that /dev/sdd1 and /dev/sde1 were listed > together in this lvm cache, and those are the two disks that normally > get blasted every 6 months or so. That's an odd coincidence, and my > best lead yet. Well that file does seem stale, because those partitions aren't actually part of LVM. They're members of an mdadm array. I don't know where LVM comes into this because we don't have the complete layout. -- Chris Murphy -- 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
