On Mon, 2010-09-06 at 03:12 -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: > > Luckily, the RAID was working, it just never "detected" the failed > disk. A power off/power on reboot cleared that problem and it came > right back online with a single disk and one in a failed state > in /proc/mdstat -- so that leads to item #2...
Google Linux swap on raid using mdtools. I had issue where I did not RAID1 the swap. If the box used it and if the drive failed this caused issues that did not permit the box to continue to operate.