[CentOS] Software raid Oddity

2020-12-16 Thread Paul R. Ganci via CentOS
I have a CentOS 7.9 system with a software raid 6 root partition. Today something very strange occurred. At 6:45AM the system crashed. I rebooted and when the system came up I had multiple emails indicating that 3 out of 6 drives had failed on the root partition. Strangely I was able to boot in

Re: [CentOS] Software raid Oddity

2020-12-16 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 13:57:13 -0700 Paul R. Ganci via CentOS wrote: > My gut suggests that the raid array was never degraded and that my > system (i.e. cat /proc/mdstat) was lying to me. Any Opinions? I wonder if it's a ram failure in either the main computer or the drive controller. An intermi

Re: [CentOS] Software raid Oddity

2020-12-16 Thread Christopher Wensink
I had an issue similar to this years ago where I helped out a former employer on a Dell Poweredge System with a RAID 5 array (Windows). The system Refused to Boot, but there were lights on the front of the backplane were the drives slid in, indicating drive fault (amber) or drive ok (green).  O