[ Friday, December 17, 1999 ] Jakob Østergaard wrote:
> What ? How ? You lost two drives in your RAID-5 ?
FWIW, it has been documented at least twice on this list that a RAID5
with no hot-spare can lose two drives and it will keep going... the
two typical lines in the syslog are like:
raid5: Disk failure on sdl1, disabling device. Operation continuing on 8 devices
raid5: Disk failure on sdf1, disabling device. Operation continuing on 7 devices
those above being pasted from
http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-raid@vger.rutgers.edu/msg04257.html
Marc Merlin also posted the same problem over at
http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-raid@vger.rutgers.edu/msg04342.html
I've been trying to figure out how the raid5_error logic should be redone
but a lack of real understanding as to the raid_disks vs. working_disks,
etc. have kept me from rewriting it... please feel free :)
James
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Miscellaneous Engineer --- IBM Netfinity Performance Development
