Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Feb 2002 10:24:16 +0100 | From | Francois Romieu <> | Subject | Re: Quick question on Software RAID support. |
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Greetings,
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> : [...] > >From personal experience software RAID is quite fast, and very reliable > regarding failures while running. If a disk fails the system drops back to > recovery, and after a new drive is added and `raidhotadd' is run it is > rebuilt. > > The dark side of the force is that is a drive fails on boot, I have had
(raid1) - planned reboot; - spontaneous fsck; - rarely accessed part of a disk isn't happy - is it normal for an scsi error to take more than 10 minutes ? - LRB - removal of faulty drive; - reboot; - spontaneous fsck; -> now there's a nice fs with a 3 months old content.
Interesting experience for an otherwise usual sunday.
Btw, this log entry is a bit terse:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/testing/patch-2.4.18.log [...] - Fix rare data loss case with RAID-1
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