Re: failing raid on shutdown

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 10:23:58PM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote:
> I updated an old box to -current/amd64 (6.99.40) about a fortnight
> ago, and noticed that its first root raid0 would fail with an IO
> error on shutdown. On startup, reconstructing it to itself seemed
> to work.  I just thought the disk was old enough, and should get
> a new one.
> 
> Today, on an up-to-date -current/amd64 box (recent hardware,
> 6.99.42), I installed a brand new disk, to mirror from another
> reasonably new 2T existing disk. Same again: the new disk's first
> root raid0 partition fails with an IO error on shutdown and the
> component needs rebuilding.
> 
> Coincidence?

I forgot to say that these disks are mirrored, so level 1 (hence bootable)

P