Thread (10 messages) 10 messages, 4 authors, 2011-05-01

Re: High mismatch count on root device - how to best handle?

From: Mark Knecht <hidden>
Date: 2011-05-01 17:13:12

On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 7:50 AM, Brad Campbell [off-list ref] wrote:
On 01/05/11 06:51, Mark Knecht wrote:
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On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:31 PM, Wolfgang Denk[off-list ref]  wrote:
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Dear Phil Turmel,

In message[ref]  you wrote:
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Hmmm.  Since its not swap, this would make me worry about the hardware.
 Have you considered shuffling SATA port assignments to see if a pattern
shows up?  Also consider moving some of the drive power load to another PS.
I do not think this is hardware related.  I see this behaviour on at
least 5 different machines which show no other problems except for the
mismatch count in the RAID 1 partitins that hold the /boot partition.
root@srv:/server# grep . /sys/block/md?/md/mismatch_cnt
/sys/block/md0/md/mismatch_cnt:0
/sys/block/md1/md/mismatch_cnt:128
/sys/block/md2/md/mismatch_cnt:0
/sys/block/md3/md/mismatch_cnt:41728
/sys/block/md4/md/mismatch_cnt:896
/sys/block/md5/md/mismatch_cnt:0
/sys/block/md6/md/mismatch_cnt:4352

root@srv:/server# cat /proc/mdstat | grep md[1346]
md6 : active raid1 sdp6[0] sdo6[1]
md4 : active raid1 sdp3[0] sdo3[1]
md3 : active raid1 sdp2[0] sdo2[1]
md1 : active raid1 sdp1[0] sdo1[1]

root@srv:/server# cat /etc/fstab | grep md[1346]
/dev/md1        /               ext4 errors=remount-ro,commit=30,noatime
0 1
/dev/md6        /raid0          ext4    defaults,commit=30,noatime      0 1
/dev/md4        /home           ext4    defaults,commit=30,noatime      0 1
/dev/md3        none            swap    sw

I see them _all_ the time on RAID1's..

When I configured this system _years_ ago, I did not know any better, so
it's a bit of a mish-mash.

The machine also has a 10 drive RAID-6 and a 3 drive RAID-5. The only time
I've seen mismatches on those is when I used a SIL 3132 controller and it
trashed the RAID-6.

Brad
Brad,
   Thanks very much for sharing the data and your experiences with
this. I'll simply ignore it on the RAID1's from now on.

Cheers,
Mark
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