unreadable (pending) sectors

Pawel Jakub Dawidek pjd at FreeBSD.org
Sun Feb 4 12:13:54 UTC 2007


On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 06:20:56PM +0100, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> a few days ago I start reading records like this in /var/log/messages
> 
> Feb  3 17:27:22 roxy smartd[71846]: Device: /dev/ad6, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
> Feb  3 17:27:22 roxy smartd[71846]: Device: /dev/ad6, 1 Offline uncorrectable sectors
> 
> ad6 is one of two drives in gmirror, so I am not so "scared" ;)
> 
> Related parts of output of smartctl -a /dev/ad6
> 
> 197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       1
> 198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   100   100   000    Old_age Offline      -       1
> 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x003e   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
> 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate   0x000a   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
> 201 Soft_Read_Error_Rate    0x000a   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       2
> 
> # 1  Extended offline    Completed: read failure       10%      4118      474119936
> # 2  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      4115      -
> 
> How can I determine which file belongs to LBA 474119936 / How can I try to write to this sector, so drive can internaly realocate this bad sector?
> Is there any special tools/commands to this?

It will be possible to write such a tool, but I don't know if one
already exist...

What you want to do (write to bad sectors) should be integral
gmirror/graid3 functionality - when error is detected on read, operation
is repeated on 2nd half of the mirror and when completed, it should
write to the first half. It is not implemented yet, but I'm planning to
do so. This also have a nice additional value. You can configure geli
authentication on top of each mirror half and when silent data
corruption is detected by geli, gmirror will read data from the other
half and rewrite corrupted region with correct data. Almost like ZFS:)

What I can suggest now is to just rebuild the problematic half:

	# gmirror rebuild <name> ad6

-- 
Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheel.pl
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