Re: [CentOS] // RESEND // 7.6: Software RAID1 fails the only meaningful test

2018-12-07 Thread Benjamin Smith
On Wednesday, December 5, 2018 8:07:02 PM PST Gordon Messmer wrote: > I used my test system to test RAID failures. It has a two-disk RAID1 > mirror. I pulled one drive, waited for the kernel to acknowledge the > missing drive, and then rebooted. The system started up normally with > just one

Re: [CentOS] // RESEND // 7.6: Software RAID1 fails the only meaningful test

2018-12-05 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 12/5/18 11:55 AM, Benjamin Smith wrote: The point of RAID1 is to allow for continued uptime in a failure scenario. When I assemble servers with RAID1, I set up two HDDs to mirror each other, and test by booting from each drive individually to verify that it works. For the OS partitions, I use

[CentOS] // RESEND // 7.6: Software RAID1 fails the only meaningful test

2018-12-05 Thread Benjamin Smith
(Resend: message didn't show, was my original message too big? Posted one of the output files to a website to see) The point of RAID1 is to allow for continued uptime in a failure scenario. When I assemble servers with RAID1, I set up two HDDs to mirror each other, and test by booting from