On 11Oct2007 07:07, Neal Becker <ndbecker2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: | I have a raid0 array, and I'm getting this: | Currently unreadable (pending) sectors detected: | /dev/sda - 48 Time(s) | 2 unreadable sectors detected | | Offline uncorrectable sectors detected: | /dev/sda - 48 Time(s) | 2 offline uncorrectable sectors detected | | What should I do? Run badblocks? As remarked, replacement drives may be the cheap and experient approach. But I will remark that my venerable laptop drive started doing this to me some time ago. Since it had a single ext3 filesystem I went: e2fsck -c /dev/sda That ran badblocks, and told the fs to avoid those sectors. And it's been fine since. It took a whole day as I recall; once the scan hits the bad sectors Linux stalls for a while retrying them before propagating the failure up for badblocks to see. And of course I've lost some data somewhere. The prudent thing is new media, and a more robust RAID (1, or 5 if you've got enough $s and drive bays). The cheap but effictive thing, if $s are short and you can stand the downtime, may be an "e2fsck -c". You're still at risk of course, but since I don't believe that bad sectors spread like a fungus I suspect you're not at much more risk than you already are with RAID0. It may buy you a lot of time while accruing $s and planning your storage upgrade. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Cat: What is it? Rimmer: It's a rent in the space-time continuum. Cat: What is it? Lister: The stasis room freezes time, you know, makes time stand still. So whenever you have a leak, it must preserve whatever it's leaked into, and it's leaked into this room. Cat: What is it? Rimmer: It's singularity, a point in the universe where the normal laws of space and time don't apply. Cat: What is it? Lister: It's a hole back into the past. Cat: Oh, a magic door! Well, why didn't you say? - Red Dwarf, _Stasis Leak_
