At Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:40:25 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 16:26 -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
A PowerEdge with plain old SATA disks will complain about a missing disk as well -- we had a disk die and everytime it booted while we waited for the replacement it would stop complaining that the disk was missing (we had software RAID and were able to stay up with a 'degraded' RAID set for the week or so it took to get the replacemnt).
Which makes me wonder why would you ever shut it down in the first place? I sure would not wait a week on a disk replacement much less more than 24 hours.
First of all WD was not going to send us a new disk unless we sent the old one in first -- the disks are not in hot swap bays, so I had 'remove' the bad disk from the RAID sets and shut down the machine to remove it.
Second, we had a couple of power failures (yes, we have a UPS, but that is only good enough for a graceful shutdown, not for an extended power outage).
The machine was only shutdown because we *had* to shut it down.
The server is not a 'critical' server, in the sense that it has to have near 100% uptime. It is not public facing server in that sense.
John
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