On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 5:27 PM, Joel Sing <j...@sing.id.au> wrote: > RAID5 should work (ignore RAID6 - it is still incomplete) and rebuilding > should be functional: > > http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20150413071009 > > When I reenabled RAID5, I had tested it reasonably as I could, but it still > needs to be put through its paces. How are you offlining the drive? If you're > doing it via bioctl then it will potentially behave differently to a hardware > failure (top down through the bio(4)/softraid(4) driver, instead of bottom up > via the I/O path). If you can dependably reproduce the issue then I would > certainly be interested in tracking down the cause.
I'm using bioctl offlining indeed. And yes, the issue is easily duplicable, but it takes time. I'll send you my scripts off-list. Thanks for the note about RAID6.
