>>> Hate to change the conversation here but that's why I hate hardware >>> RAID. >>> If it was software RAID, Linux would always tell you what's going on. >>> Besides, Linux knows much more about what is going on on the disk and >>> what is about to happen (like a megabyte DMA transfer). >>> >>> BTW, check if something is creating: >>> >>> /forcefsck >> >> These exist: >> >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 7 10:03 .autofsck >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 7 10:03 .autorelabel >> >> What does that mean? > > ARRRGGGHGHGHGHGHGHHGHGHHHH!!!!!!! > > First, delete /.autofsck. That will stop it from fsckin'g *everything* > every reboot. Second, is selinux in enforcing mode? In any case, have you > recently done major changes? If not, delete /.autorelabel, since an > selinux relabel takes a *while*, esp. if you have *lots* of files. > > mark The directions for installing OpenVZ on Centos 6 stated to disable selinux, on this box I missed that step, whoops.