Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Jan 2002 21:51:08 +0100 | From | Stephan von Krawczynski <> | Subject | Re: ReiserFS and RAID5 |
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On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 21:29:15 +0100 "Simen Thoresen" <simen-tt@online.no> wrote:
> >Is anybody out there that ever survived a hd crash in SW RAID5 config? > >(Meaning _without_ need to reboot) > > Survived and survived.... > > I had a drive lose power (flaky connector) in a 4 drive setup (2x hpt370 dual channel controllers, each with a 30G IBM ide-drive on each channel - Using IDE and Raid-patches for 2.2.17). The result was a readable, but unwritable array. A streamed mp3 played flawlessly while the drive 'died', while my download (over smb) just froze. > > Rebuilding the array (after a reboot) went ok, but during rebuild the 'new' drive appeared to be drive #5 in the 4-disk set, with drive #3 still dead.
Why is it not writeable? What about a runtime fallover to a spare disk?
Regards, Stephan
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