Thanks for responding.
The contents of the raid array is reference only so it is mounted as read-only. The flashing of the activity LED doesn't appear to impact the read access to the filesystem so I'll ignore it unless something goes awry in the future.
Thanks again.
One activity LED flashes for a few minutes without any apparent activity on the corresponding drive. I'm assuming that there is disk access during this.You mean that one disk flashes more or makes more noise? Any kind of scan or sync should require accessing all drives roughly equally. It also seems unlikely that any user data could end up disproportionately on one drive.
OK, I didn't know what the figure was supposed to represent and it makes sense that it is the same as each individual drive in the array.md does not know anything about the filesystem you have on the array, or its free space. It is just telling you that the member devices are 6TB decimal and the total RAID5 space is 18TB. It is "Used Dev Size" because if you had some 8TB drives mixed into this array, you would only be using the first 6TB, to match the others. (After replacing all the drives, one by one, with larger ones, you would be able to mdadm --grow.)
The contents of the raid array is reference only so it is mounted as read-only. The flashing of the activity LED doesn't appear to impact the read access to the filesystem so I'll ignore it unless something goes awry in the future.
Thanks again.
Statistics: Posted by Smudged — Tue Aug 13, 2024 4:47 pm
