<div class="gmail_quote"><div>Hi Brian,</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">This sounds extremely unlikely. mdadm and LVM both work at the block device<br>
layer - reading and writing 512-byte blocks. They have no understanding of<br>
filesystems and no understanding of user IDs.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Agreed.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I suspect there were other differences between the tests. For example, did<br>
you do one with an ext4 filesystem and one with xfs? Or did you have a<br>
failed drive in your RAID1, which meant that some writes were timing out?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Both environments were xfs. The only difference is that the original environment was not using LVM or mdadm -- similar to what I ended up doing on the second environment in the end. I do plan on testing this out in more detail soon as I'd like to narrow the issue down further.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">FWIW, I've also seen the "files owned by root" occasionally in testing, but<br>
wasn't able to pin down the cause.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Good to know - if anything to say I'm not going crazy :)</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Joe </div></div>