On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 10:00:07 +1100, > L <yuanlux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi >> >> I have RAID1 system, the partition /dev/md4 is in raid1 with >> /dev/sda4 /dev/sdb4. In order to check /dev/sdb4 I remove it from >> /dev/md4 > > There are ways of checking disks without pulling them out of service. > smartctl can do surface scans while leaving the disk functional. > >> The system did sync md4, this lasted ~ 6 hours. however, after reboot, >> /proc/mdstat shows /dev/md4 has one disk /dev/sda4 active. > > 6 hours is a long time for a resync. Was the system under heavy load? > Are an IO errors showing up in your logs? > >> How to let system hold both partitions /dev/sda4 and /dev/sdb4 for >> /dev/md4 after reboot? > > From what you described it looked like you were correctly readding the > disk and waiting for the sync to complete before rebooting. > The md re-sync on /dev/md4 (/dev/sda4 /dev/sdb4) was completed, after reboot, the partition /dev/sdb4 on /dev/md4 was missed again, as shown from mdstat Personalities : [linear] [raid1] md4 : active raid1 sda4[0] 484327552 blocks [2/1] [U_] md1 : active raid1 sdb1[1] sda1[0] 2939776 blocks [2/2] [UU] md2 : active raid1 sdb2[1] sda2[0] 104320 blocks [2/2] [UU] md3 : active raid1 sdb3[1] sda3[0] 987904 blocks [2/2] [UU] unused devices: <none> any suggestion?? thanks Y -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines