From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 28 10:25:45 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 891BF16A41F for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 10:25:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from m@obmail.net) Received: from stewie.obfuscated.net (stewie.obfuscated.net [66.118.188.125]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B0A743D48 for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 10:25:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from m@obmail.net) Received: from [192.168.1.102] (214-3.26-24.tampabay.res.rr.com [24.26.3.214]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by stewie.obfuscated.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80C3E6127 for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 06:25:44 -0400 (EDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v734) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed To: FreeBSD Mailing List From: Michael Conlen Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 06:25:44 -0400 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.734) Subject: Disk inconsistency X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 10:25:45 -0000 I have reason to believe that a set of mirrored disks became inconsistent recently. Since reviving the disk array the system it's attached to has become highly unstable. It appears to deadlock every few hours. No errors, no logs, no response to keyboard, ping or other network requests. Each reboot takes several passes with FSCK to get the disks in to a clean state to boot with again. Can anyone confirm that reading data from a set of mirrored drives which are inconsistent would cause this type of symptom?