[CentOS] question on software raid

Fri Apr 1 15:43:41 UTC 2011
Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com>

on 4/1/2011 8:32 AM Jerry Geis spake the following:
> dmesg is not reporting any issues.
> 
> The /proc/mdstat looks fine.
> md0 : active raid1 sdb1[1] sda1[0]
>     X blocks [2/2]  [UU]
> 
> however /var/log/messages says:
> 
> smartd[3392] Device /dev/sda 20 offline uncorrectable sectors
> 
> The machine is running fine.. raid array looks good - what
> is up with smartd?
> 
> THanks,
> 
> Jerry
Could it be that the bad sectors so far have been in unused areas? Once a
drive runs out of sectors to map corrections to, I would really think about
replacing it.