linux-kernel - Re: [2.6.20.11] File system corruption with degraded md/RAID-5 device

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Date:	Thu, 17 May 2007 12:07:39 +1000
From:	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>
To:	koan <koan00@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6.20.11] File system corruption with degraded md/RAID-5 device

On Wednesday May 16, koan00@...il.com wrote:
> 
> Here is what I am doing to test:
> 
> fdisk /dev/sda1 and /dev/sb1 to type fd/Linux raid auto
> mdadm --create /dev/md1 -c 128 -l 5 -n 3 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 missing
> mke2fs -j -b 4096 -R stride=32 /dev/md1
> e2fsck -f /dev/md1
> ---------------------
> Result: FAILS - fsck errors (Example: "Inode 3930855 is in use, but
> has dtime set.")

Very odd.  I cannot reproduce this, but then my drives are somewhat
smaller than yours (though I'm not sure how that could be
significant).

Can you try a raid0 across 2 drives?  That would be more like the
raid5 layout than raid1.

My guess is some subtle hardware problem,  as I would be very
surprised in the raid5 code is causing this.  Maybe run memtest86? 

NeilBrown
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