andy liebman wrote:
> I tried simply unplugging one drive from its power and from its SATA
> connector. The OS didn't like that at all. My KDE session kept running,
> but I could no longer open any new terminals. I couldn't become root in
> an existing terminal that was already running. And I couldn't SSH into
> the machine.
That's likely to be because sata hotswap isn't supported (yet).
dmesg should give you more info.

 > I know that simply unplugging a drive is not the same as a drive failing
> or timing out. But is there a more realistic way to simulate a failure
> so that I can know that the mirror will work when it's needed?

Read up on the md-faulty device.

Also, FWIW, md works just fine :)
(Lots of other things can go wrong so testing your setup is a food idea though)

David
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