On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Sergey Kandaurov <pluknet_at_gmail.com> wrote: > 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. Check with LSI before you commit that; you might not understand the overall nuances of that value. Thanks, -GarrettReceived on Mon Oct 18 2010 - 15:25:43 UTC
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