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Message-ID: <4A950FA6.4020408@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 06:34:14 -0400
From: Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@...hat.com>
To: Andrei Tanas <andrei@...as.ca>
CC: "'NeilBrown'" <neilb@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: MD/RAID: what's wrong with sector 1953519935?
On 08/25/2009 11:45 PM, Andrei Tanas wrote:
>>>> I would suggest that Andrei might try to write and clear the IO
>>>>
>> error
>>
>>>> at that
>>>> offset. You can use Mark Lord's hdparm to clear a specific sector or
>>>> just do the
>>>> math (carefully!) and dd over it. It the write succeeds (without
>>>> bumping your
>>>> remapped sectors count) this is a likely match to this problem,
>>>>
>>> I've tried dd multiple times, it always succeeds, and the relocated
>>>
>> sector
>>
>>> count is currently 1 on this drive, even though this particular fault
>>> happened at least 3 times so far.
>>>
>>>
>> I would bump that count way up (say to 2) and see if you have an
>> issue...
>>
> Not sure what you mean by this: how can I artificially bump the relocated
> sector count?
>
>
Sorry - you need to set the tunable:
/sys/block/mdX/md/safe_mode_delay
to something like "2" to prevent that sector from being a hotspot...
ric
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