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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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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