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gbeddow
Jul 05, 2020Luminary
rn-expand[2065]: Failed to get device type for /dev/md0: 25
I'm seeing this message in the logs every 2 minutes: rn-expand[2065]: Failed to get device type for /dev/md0: 25 I couldn't find much info on rn-expand, but it seems to relate to expanding volumes....
gbeddow
Jul 07, 2020Luminary
gbeddow
Jul 07, 2020Luminary
Also noticed this in the syslog:
# cat /data/rsyslog/syslog | grep rn-expand ... Jul 6 12:05:27 RN202 rn-expand[2065]: Failed to get device type for /dev/md0: 25 Jul 6 12:08:38 RN202 rn-expand[2063]: Trying auto-expand (in-place) Jul 6 12:08:38 RN202 rn-expand[2063]: Considering inplace auto-expansion for data Jul 6 12:08:38 RN202 rn-expand[2063]: Checking if RAID disk sda is expandable... Jul 6 12:08:38 RN202 rn-expand[2063]: Trying auto-extend (grow onto additional disks) Jul 6 12:08:38 RN202 rn-expand[2063]: auto_extend: Checking disk sda... Jul 6 12:08:38 RN202 rn-expand[2063]: Trying xraid-expand (tiered expansion) Jul 6 12:08:38 RN202 rn-expand[2063]: Considering X-RAID auto-expansion for data Jul 6 12:08:38 RN202 rn-expand[2063]: Checking if RAID disk sda is expandable... Jul 6 12:08:38 RN202 rn-expand[2063]: No enough disks for data-0 to expand [need 2, have 0] Jul 6 12:08:38 RN202 rn-expand[2063]: 0 disks expandable in data Jul 6 12:09:38 RN202 rn-expand[2063]: Failed to get device type for /dev/md0: 25 ...Why is it trying to "auto-expand"? There's nothing to expand AFAICT.
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