On Sat, 26 Jun 1999, A James Lewis wrote:
> I found a problem... I think....
>
> I recently had a disk failure, on my raid1 (mirror) array, the raid system
> handled things well... but I decided to give the disk a second chance
> after a power cycle... it came up and I removed the faulty disk with
> raidhotremove....
>
> Then I added it back again with raidhotadd....
>
> It started to sync, got 6% through and then failed again.... The system
> marked it as faulty, but wasn't able to stop the resync...
>
> It then had marked the disk as faulty, so I again raidhotremoved it....
> It removed OK, but then I had a system which was trying to sync, but only
> had one disk.... raidstop hung and things went downhill from there!
>
> Hope this means somthing to someone!
yeah, this looks like a real bug, thanks. Will look into this. Are things
now OK (i guess you had to reboot)? Probably the fact that after 6% you
had a failure means that the disk has a permanent failure.
-- mingo
