Re: n2100, failed raid 1 disk: cannot shutdown

2008-05-20 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 05:35:58PM +0200, Michele Bini wrote: Uhm, you are obviously right: let's say that when I partitioned the disks I didn't have swap space resiliency at the front of my thoughts. What's the point of raid1 if the machine crashes and looses current data if a disk fails?

n2100, failed raid 1 disk: cannot shutdown

2008-05-17 Thread Michele Bini
Hello everybody, I have the following configuration: a thecus n2100 with two disks configured as raid1 (actually there are three partitions on each disk: a non-mirrored swap partition and two data partitions, one small and the other large. These latter partitions are part of two raid1 mirrors

Re: n2100, failed raid 1 disk: cannot shutdown

2008-05-17 Thread Paul Brook
I have the following configuration: a thecus n2100 with two disks configured as raid1 (actually there are three partitions on each disk: a non-mirrored swap partition Rookie mistake. If either drive goes down you suddenly loose swap, and the whole machine is foobared. linux will do load

Re: n2100, failed raid 1 disk: cannot shutdown

2008-05-17 Thread Michele Bini
Paul Brook wrote: I have the following configuration: a thecus n2100 with two disks configured as raid1 (actually there are three partitions on each disk: a non-mirrored swap partition Rookie mistake. If either drive goes down you suddenly loose swap, and the whole machine is foobared. Uhm,