[Resolved] software raid resynchs too much

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ant2ne
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[Resolved] software raid resynchs too much

Post by ant2ne » 2018/12/20 19:57:56

I have an HP server with 40+TB linux software raid 6 with a hot spare. For the past week the server has been resyncing. It has done this at least 3 times that I’ve witnessed. It completes it just fine after several hours, but it will randomly begin to resynch again. I’ve disabled /etc/cron.d/raid-check so it isn’t cron kicking it off. Does anyone have any ideas what is causing this thing to continually resynch.
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Re: software raid resynchs too much

Post by avij » 2018/12/20 20:23:02

The reason for the resync may be recorded in /var/log/messages or in the output of dmesg.

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Re: software raid resynchs too much

Post by ant2ne » 2018/12/20 21:34:24

it really isn't logging much of value. Nothing that tells me what happened.

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Re: software raid resynchs too much

Post by TrevorH » 2018/12/21 09:53:05

How about posting the output here so we can see it too.
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Re: software raid resynchs too much

Post by ant2ne » 2019/01/03 14:20:34

For anyone else who may encounter this problem. It was bad sectors on one of the drives kicking off the resync repeatedly. After replacing the bad drive it did 2 more resyncs (which made me nervous) but then stopped after that.

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