[linux-lvm] Random file system errors

[Steer, Geoff]

I've a server with a very similar problem to this.

Running a dd on the /var file system always gives a SCSI error at the
same spot. An fsck will fix the filesystem without errors but it will
always get remounted as read only after a short while.

I'd assumed a disk/controller problem but at the raid card firmware and
bios level, no disk errors are logged. Disks have been rescanned for bad
blocks with no errors reported.

It has 6 disks in a RAID 5 array. IBM 3650 with Serveraid 8K controller.
Redhat 5.3 with latest patches.

Regards
Geoff

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-lvm-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:linux-lvm-bounces at redhat.com]
On Behalf Of Gaute Lund
Sent: Tuesday, 28 April 2009 11:52 AM
To: linux-lvm at redhat.com
Subject: [linux-lvm] Random file system errors

I have searched the web and the mailing list without finding anything
similar to this.

At home I have an LVM setup. Reading data gives random errors. I only
recently discovered it's an LVM issue. I think.

The issue: If I md5sum largeish files, or test archives, I sometimes get
errors or randomly different md5sums. Like now, I have 11 folders, all
with
rar files in parts: some 300 15MB pieces in 6 folders/sets, totaling
4,2GB,
and 560 50MB pieces in 5 folders/sets, totaling 23G.

OK, so I "rar t" all of these 5 times over. Errors pop up randomly, 52
times
in the 50MB pieces, 10 times in the 15MB pieces. That's about 1 error
for
every 2,1GB of data read. Md5suming multiple files gives about the same
error rate.

If I run repeated test on a rar set small enough to fit in cache mem, I
get
errors, but they are indentical with each run. 

Is it really an lvm problem? Well, I have created new LVs and use
different
filesystems, ext3, xfs, jfs - they're all the same. If I create an md on
some other disks, and put a filesystem on it, without LVM, no problems.

I can't find any other errors, in any logs or dmesg. The errors weren't
there to begin with, they came at one point and got worse. It took a
while
before I realized it was a generic disk problem, and for a period I kind
of
gave up on it. So it's been there for ... maybe six months?

The VG consist of two software RAID 5 md's, one consisting of four 200GB
IDEs, one of five 500GB SATAs, yielding av VG totaling 2,37TB. Other
hardware is 4GB memory and a Core 2 Duo 6600 CPU.

Machine runs Ubuntu 8.10 with kernel 2.6.27-11, and
  LVM version:     2.02.39 (2008-06-27)
  Library version: 1.02.27 (2008-06-25)
  Driver version:  4.14.0

But the VG was originally created long ago, on LVM1 even.

Well, I guess that's it. Any other information that could be helpful?
Any
way I could debug this?

Best regards
Gaute Lund

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