[CentOS] HP ProLiant DL380 G5

Thu Aug 21 20:54:05 UTC 2014
Matt <matt.mailinglists at gmail.com>

> 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?

> That would make the fsck run every time.
>
> GKH
>
>> Matt wrote:
>>> I have CentOS 6.x installed on a "HP ProLiant DL380 G5" server.  It
>>> has eight 750GB drives in a hardware RAID6 array.  Its acting as a
>>> host for a number of OpenVZ containers.
>>>
>>> Seems like every time I reboot this server which is not very often it
>>> sits for hours running a disk check or something on boot.  The server
>>> is located 200+ miles away so its not very convenient to look at.  Is
>>> there anyway to tell if it plans to run this or tell it not too?
>>>
>>> Right now its reporting one of the drives in array is bad and last
>>> time it did this a reboot resolved it.
>>
>> You need to know what it's running. If it's doing an fsck, that will take
>> a lot of time. If it's firmware in the RAID controller, that's different.
>> You can run tune2fs /dev/whatever and see how often it wants to run fsck.
>> For that matter, what's the entry in /etc/fstab?
>>
>>       mark
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