Hi,

Ik accidentally discovered that my software RAID5 array was degraded: one of the three disks had been kicked out of the array.

It appeared that disk /dev/sda1 had been disabled 5 days before! I was totally unaware of the problem, which is odd.

syslog shows the moment the array got into trouble:

   2010-02-23T17:10:31.974066+01:00 home07 kernel: ata1.00: exception
   Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
   2010-02-23T17:10:31.974200+01:00 home07 kernel: ata1.00: cmd
   ea/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0
   2010-02-23T17:10:31.974213+01:00 home07 kernel:         res
   40/00:00:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
   2010-02-23T17:10:31.974222+01:00 home07 kernel: ata1.00: status: {
   DRDY }
   2010-02-23T17:10:31.974230+01:00 home07 kernel: ata1: hard resetting
   link
   2010-02-23T17:10:31.974240+01:00 home07 kernel: ata1: nv: skipping
   hardreset on occupied port
   2010-02-23T17:10:37.479060+01:00 home07 kernel: ata1: link is slow
   to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
   2010-02-23T17:10:42.018051+01:00 home07 kernel: ata1: SRST failed
   (errno=-16)
   2010-02-23T17:10:42.018074+01:00 home07 kernel: ata1: hard resetting
   link
   2010-02-23T17:10:42.018081+01:00 home07 kernel: ata1: nv: skipping
   hardreset on occupied port
   2010-02-23T17:10:47.521060+01:00 home07 kernel: ata1: link is slow
   to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
   2010-02-23T17:10:52.062048+01:00 home07 kernel: ata1: SRST failed
   (errno=-16)
   2010-02-23T17:10:52.062072+01:00 home07 kernel: ata1: hard resetting
   link
   2010-02-23T17:10:52.062079+01:00 home07 kernel: ata1: nv: skipping
   hardreset on occupied port
   2010-02-23T17:10:57.564052+01:00 home07 kernel: ata1: link is slow
   to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
   2010-02-23T17:11:27.094054+01:00 home07 kernel: ata1: SRST failed
   (errno=-16)
   2010-02-23T17:11:27.094086+01:00 home07 kernel: ata1: limiting SATA
   link speed to 1.5 Gbps
   2010-02-23T17:11:27.094096+01:00 home07 kernel: ata1: hard resetting
   link
   2010-02-23T17:11:27.094107+01:00 home07 kernel: ata1: nv: skipping
   hardreset on occupied port
   2010-02-23T17:11:32.139070+01:00 home07 kernel: ata1: SRST failed
   (errno=-16)
   2010-02-23T17:11:32.139103+01:00 home07 kernel: ata1: reset failed,
   giving up
   2010-02-23T17:11:32.139112+01:00 home07 kernel: ata1.00: disabled
   2010-02-23T17:11:32.139147+01:00 home07 kernel: ata1.00: device
   reported invalid CHS sector 0
   2010-02-23T17:11:32.139158+01:00 home07 kernel: end_request: I/O
   error, dev sda, sector 164842814
   2010-02-23T17:11:32.139168+01:00 home07 kernel: md: super_written
   gets error=-5, uptodate=0
   2010-02-23T17:11:32.139177+01:00 home07 kernel: raid5: Disk failure
   on sda2, disabling device.
   2010-02-23T17:11:32.139186+01:00 home07 kernel: raid5: Operation
   continuing on 2 devices.
   2010-02-23T17:11:32.139194+01:00 home07 kernel: ata1: EH complete
   2010-02-23T17:11:32.154040+01:00 home07 kernel: RAID5 conf printout:
   2010-02-23T17:11:32.154064+01:00 home07 kernel: --- rd:3 wd:2
   2010-02-23T17:11:32.154069+01:00 home07 kernel: disk 0, o:0, dev:sda2
   2010-02-23T17:11:32.154074+01:00 home07 kernel: disk 1, o:1, dev:sdb2
   2010-02-23T17:11:32.154079+01:00 home07 kernel: disk 2, o:1, dev:sdc2
   2010-02-23T17:11:32.157289+01:00 home07 kernel: RAID5 conf printout:
   2010-02-23T17:11:32.157419+01:00 home07 kernel: --- rd:3 wd:2
   2010-02-23T17:11:32.157426+01:00 home07 kernel: disk 1, o:1, dev:sdb2
   2010-02-23T17:11:32.157431+01:00 home07 kernel: disk 2, o:1, dev:sdc2

Upon discovery I rebuilt the array of course:

   2010-03-01T10:21:13.944903+01:00 home07 kernel: md: bind<sda2>
   2010-03-01T10:21:13.962118+01:00 home07 kernel: RAID5 conf printout:
   2010-03-01T10:21:13.962272+01:00 home07 kernel: --- rd:3 wd:2
   2010-03-01T10:21:13.962284+01:00 home07 kernel: disk 0, o:1, dev:sda2
   2010-03-01T10:21:13.962293+01:00 home07 kernel: disk 1, o:1, dev:sdb2
   2010-03-01T10:21:13.962302+01:00 home07 kernel: disk 2, o:1, dev:sdc2
   2010-03-01T10:21:13.968175+01:00 home07 kernel: md: recovery of RAID
   array md1
   2010-03-01T10:21:13.968215+01:00 home07 kernel: md: minimum
   _guaranteed_  speed: 1000 KB/sec/disk.
   2010-03-01T10:21:13.968228+01:00 home07 kernel: md: using maximum
   available idle IO bandwidth (but not more than 200000 KB/sec) for
   recovery.
   2010-03-01T10:21:13.968239+01:00 home07 kernel: md: using 128k
   window, over a total of 81923328 blocks.
   2010-03-01T10:42:39.093334+01:00 home07 dhclient[1804]: DHCPREQUEST
   on br0 to 192.168.254.254 port 67
   2010-03-01T10:42:39.095010+01:00 home07 dhclient[1804]: DHCPACK from
   192.168.254.254
   2010-03-01T10:42:39.846397+01:00 home07 dhclient[1804]: bound to
   192.168.254.7 -- renewal in 1797 seconds.
   2010-03-01T10:46:41.279910+01:00 home07 kernel: md: md1: recovery done.
   2010-03-01T10:46:41.320932+01:00 home07 kernel: RAID5 conf printout:
   2010-03-01T10:46:41.320973+01:00 home07 kernel: --- rd:3 wd:3
   2010-03-01T10:46:41.320984+01:00 home07 kernel: disk 0, o:1, dev:sda2
   2010-03-01T10:46:41.320996+01:00 home07 kernel: disk 1, o:1, dev:sdb2
   2010-03-01T10:46:41.321004+01:00 home07 kernel: disk 2, o:1, dev:sdc2

What surprises me is the fact that the system didn't inform me (except for the syslog messages) that there was something seriously wrong, It should have done so by alarming popups in X, or whatever.

Probably I just misconfigured something, but maybe Fedora has no software installed (or available) to alarm the user about these serious events.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Rolf
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