Re: making raid5 more robust after a crash?

2006-03-29 Thread Chris Allen
On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 08:13:48AM +1100, Neil Brown wrote: On Friday March 17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, We have a number of machines running 4TB raid5 arrays. Occasionally one of these machines will lock up solid and will need power cycling. Often when this happens, the

Re: making raid5 more robust after a crash?

2006-03-29 Thread Neil Brown
On Wednesday March 29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your reply. As you guessed, this was a problem with our hardware/config and nothing to do with the raid software. I'm glad you have found your problem! Can anybody point me to the syntax I could use for saying: force rebuild the

making raid5 more robust after a crash?

2006-03-17 Thread Chris Allen
Dear All, We have a number of machines running 4TB raid5 arrays. Occasionally one of these machines will lock up solid and will need power cycling. Often when this happens, the array will refuse to restart with 'cannot start dirty degraded array'. Usually mdadm --assemble --force will get the