Gordon Henderson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 12 June 1999 17:27:
>2 problems though - I powered down a drive to see what happened and I got
>a spew of messages to say it was running in degraded mode, but it didn't
>actually carry on. It seemed that all accesses to the array were blocked.
>I couldn't even halt the machine cleanly - had to hit the reset button (it
>sat there trying to unmount the disks for a long time) Rebooted, it
>wouldn't automatically rebuild the array
This is strange... for me it rebuilds fine if the raid wasn't cleanly
stopped. About powering down, you must have hardware that supports
this. If there's a problem on the SCSI bus, the machine will hang. On
the same issue, if on reboot if finds that both disks on the
controller where you stopped the disk are out of sync it won't
rebuild, because there'll be two drives out, and raid5 gives
redundancy for just one failure. The boot msgs. show this.
>The second is that I can't dump the array using the dump command!
No idea.
>I know the code is still "alpha" and it's probably early days yet, but
>thanks for any help, even if it's just a pointer to an archive or FAQ!
The code is very good. I never had problems due to the code, just due
to hardware :-(
