On 16 October 2010 02:18, Sergey Kandaurov <pluknet_at_gmail.com> wrote: > On 16 October 2010 00:51, Charles Owens <cowens_at_greatbaysoftware.com> wrote: >> Hmm... the problem appears to have resolved itself. After a few hours the >> new drive seems to have gone back into the array, and the original hot spare >> drive put back into hot-spare state. >> >> So I'm interpreting state 0x0020 to therefore mean something like "hang on >> while I use this new drive to automatically put everything back as it was >> before the failure". Is this correct? >> >> Thanks, >> Charles >> >> [root_at_Bsvr ~]# mfiutil show drives >> mfi0 Physical Drives: >> ( 149G) ONLINE<ST9160511NS SN04 serial=9SM236JR> SATA enclosure 1, slot 0 >> ( 149G) ONLINE<ST9160511NS SN04 serial=9SM237KF> SATA enclosure 1, slot 1 >> ( 149G) ONLINE<ST9160511NS SN04 serial=9SM236N8> SATA enclosure 1, slot 2 >> ( 149G) HOT SPARE<ST9160511NS SN04 serial=9SM237EK> SATA enclosure 1, slot >> 3 >> ( 149G) ONLINE<ST9160511NS SN04 serial=9SM238AG> SATA enclosure 1, slot 4 >> >> >>> [...] >>> [root_at_svr ~]# mfiutil show drives >>> mfi0 Physical Drives: >>> ( 149G) ONLINE<ST9160511NS SN04 serial=9SM236JR> SATA enclosure 1, slot >>> 0 >>> ( 149G) ONLINE<ST9160511NS SN04 serial=9SM237KF> SATA enclosure 1, slot >>> 1 >>> ( 149G) ONLINE<ST9160511NS SN04 serial=9SM236N8> SATA enclosure 1, slot >>> 2 >>> ( 149G) ONLINE<ST9160511NS SN04 serial=9SM237EK> SATA enclosure 1, slot >>> 3 >>> ( 149G) PSTATE 0x0020<ST9160511NS SN04 serial=9SM238AG> SATA enclosure >>> 1, slot 4 >>> >>> mfi0:<LSI MegaSAS 1078> port 0x1000-0x10ff mem >>> ... >>> > > Hi, Charles Owens. > > 0x20 is much likely to be the copyback physical state, > which is missing in enum mfi_pd_state. > And what you've experienced is copyback feature in action :) > Your array has been rebuilt with HSP as its ordinal PD, then you > switched failed drive > with good one, and HSP came into copyback mode to move all its data back > to good disk. That prevents reordering of disk numbers in array and > double rebuilding. > So, it no one objects, I'd like to commit this change. -- wbr, pluknet
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