Bug#446323: mdadm: recovery in infinite loop

[Lukasz Szybalski]

On 10/12/07, Neil Brown <neilb at suse.de> wrote:
> On Friday October 12, szybalski at gmail.com wrote:
> > yes I have.
> > Then I tried booting in knoppix to see if maybe there are hdd problems
> > so I run e2fsck on both drives to see if there are any issues.
> > reboot and it still does the same thing.
>
> Ok, it must be caused by some persistent state.
> Could you send
>   mdadm -E /dev/hda2
>   mdadm -E /dev/hdb2
>
> and the exact partition layouts of /dev/hda and /dev/hdb
>
> >
> > Is mdadm able to sync in init 1?
>
> The array will start resync as soon as it is assembled.  So I think
> the answer to your question is 'yes'.
>
> > Is there a debug mode so I could get more logs for the mdadm?
>
> It isn't 'mdadm', it is the kernel.  And no, there is no debug mode.
>
> > If this seems as a kernel problem, how could I find out that is the
> > case? Where would I start?
>
> I can't tell what you mean by this question.
>
> My current guess is that hda2 might be slightly smaller than hdb2 -
> though that is really justd clutching at straws.
>
> I suggest you
>  mdadm /dev/md2 -f /dev/hda2
> so that it doesn't keep trying to rebuild all the time.
>
Thanks,
Ok, I'll have some more info on monday-tuesday.
Thanks,
Lucas