RAID 1 Mismatches

Tony Nelson tonynelson at georgeanelson.com
Tue Dec 29 22:39:53 UTC 2009


On 09-12-29 15:18:48, Rick Wagner wrote:
 ...
> Thanks for the suggestions.  I did not find 'palimpset', but used the

sp. palimpsest

> your 'devkit' suggestion.  Looking at the physical device entries 
> (i.e. sd[abc][1234]?') did not show anything like error counts.  I 
> take that to mean there are no errors to be reported, though an 
> affirmative entry of "no errors" errors would be more reassuring.  
> These are fairly modern drives, so I would expect that SMART would be 
> supported on them, but wonder a little seeing the entry: "ATA SMART: 
> not available".
 ...

    # smartctl -a /dev/sda

I expect that you've seen the reply that says what you are seeing is 
normal operation when memory-mapped files are written to.  You might 
try flushing the buffers with a `sync ; sleep 2` before doing a scan.

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