On Sun, 2009-10-25 at 14:52 -0400, Ron Loftin wrote:
On Sun, 2009-10-25 at 12:33 -0600, Devin Reade wrote:
Saturday I did an upgrade from 5.3 (original install) to 5.4. Saturday night, /etc/cron.weekly reported the following:
/etc/cron.weekly/99-raid-check: WARNING: mismatch_cnt is not 0 on /dev/md0I had this happen on a box that I upgraded Friday. I went ahead and tested each partition in the affected mirror with badblocks ( found no errors ) and after multiple resyncs, there was no change. After similar experiences with Google, I did run across a note saying that this went away after a reboot. I broke down and applied the Micro$lop solution ( reboot ) and the error has gone away.
Like you, I'm interested in a better understanding of this issue, so if anyone else has more info, I'm all ears. ;>
mismatch_cnt (/sys/block/md*/md/mismatch_cnt) is the number of unsynchronized blocks in the raid.
The repair is to rebuild the raid:
# echo repair >/sys/block/md<#>/md/sync_action
...which does not reset the count, but if you force a check after the rebuild is complete:
# echo check >/sys/block/md<#>/md/sync_action
...then the count should return to zero.
Or at least that worked for me on three systems today.
Steve