[CentOS] question on software raid
Scott Silva
ssilva at sgvwater.com
Fri Apr 1 15:43:41 UTC 2011
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.
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