Re: fsck, raid reconstruction

Manfred Spraul (manfred@colorfullife.com)
Mon, 16 Apr 2001 12:07:39 +0200


The first 2 problems aren't real problems (modify /etc/fstab, perhaps a
special ioctl could be added to raid and fsck stops the reconstruction)
- at most anoying, but clearly no bugs.

But the third one could be a bug:
>
> Third problem:
>
> I just tried boot 2.4.3 today. (after an unclean shutdown) fsck runs
> at a crawl on my RAID-1 volume. It would take all day (!! literally)
> to fsck. The disk-drive activity light flashes about once a second,
> maybe once every two seconds. (with a corresponding click from the
> drive).

Can you boot without the raid-1 volume?
Run top/vmstat during the fsck+reconstruction - I assume the system runs
out of memory and bdflush/kswapd are looping.

--
Manfred
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