sofware raid issue
Hi,
I have problem with software RAID on Linux file server. Disks are still 24/7 working, even nobody access to data. I'm afraid that disks won't live a long time if it will continue. Background: I want to set up file-server with with 2x HDD 1 TB disks. I decided to use Linux software RAID, as "HW fake-RAID" on motherboard is supported only in Windows (I guess I can't recover data, if one my HDD fails where there is only Linux present. All I have is an BIOS utility, that does not provide recovery functionality). So I 1) on both disk, removed all partitions and created new one 1TB partition with fd-type 2) erased superblocks 2) add disks together in RAID 1 with mdadm 3) formatted them to ext3 partition (because I need Debian Lenny as OS) 4) waited while they synchronized 5) move data on them Problem1) Disks in RAID are all time working, even no one use them. I use no special services, clean Debian Lenny install, with just Desktop & File-server package suites. I also install FTP. Only one process seems to use disks, kjournald, that has three instances. Is this correct? Will disks live more then just one year with such disk activity? I have bought disks WD Caviar Green, SATA Hard Drives, 1 TB, 32MB cache http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?DriveID=336 Trouble is that they try to go to standby mode (slow rotations, park reading heads) after some short time. But parking heads produce different noise, so this is not an issue. They are not 100% RAID disks, but they have small power consumption. This was wrong, and if is only this problem, I will buy RAID disks. Any tips, what could be problem? Even if I go to init 1, unmount /dev/md0 and stop RAID with mdadm -S /dev/md0, disks are still working. Some information about system: Code:
uname -a Small problem, fdisk is complaining about wrong partition table ?! Disks are absolutely new, I guess I didn't do nothing wrong and I was trying a lot of things to work it out, and nothing solved it, so I ignore this. I can access data, RAID is writable. Code:
#fdisk -l Thank everybody who respond to my questions. |
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To summarize, I doubt that you /actually/ have a problem. Can you substantiate the amount of I/O you are seeing with some figures? Regardless, check out that link. |
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