[CentOS] SATA Raid 5 and losing a drive
Joshua Baker-LePain
jlb17 at duke.edu
Tue Apr 11 18:11:36 UTC 2006
On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 at 7:07pm, Andy Green wrote
> Andy Green wrote:
>> Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
>>
>>> Did you try doing any I/O to the array? In my limited experience with
>>> software RAID, it won't notice a drive missing until it tries to do
>>> something with said drive.
>>
>> Yes I did do this, I copied a file to the mountpoint and did a sync.
>> Nothing.
>
> Hm Googling around suggests that everyone with SATA raid may be experiencing
> the same lack of warning that their safety net just blew a hole through the
> server farm roof in a bid to reach escape velocity.
And *that's* why I use 3ware...
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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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