[CentOS] SATA Raid 5 and losing a drive
Chris Mauritz
chrism at imntv.com
Tue Apr 11 18:24:01 UTC 2006
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> 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...
Same here. Though I did use software RAID5 for a number of years back
in the 96-2000 timeframe and never lost any data, even on very busy
production mail servers. But as I look back, I think I was just
remarkably lucky. 8-)
Cheers,
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