On Mon, 31 May 1999, Francisco Jose Montilla wrote:
> On Sun, 30 May 1999, James O'Kane wrote:
> > > Also, which kernel version/raid patch version/raidtools utilities
> > > version are you using?
> > >
> >
> > We're using 2.2.6, with the
On Sat, 29 May 1999, Francisco Jose Montilla wrote:
> On Thu, 27 May 1999, James O'Kane wrote:
> Raid 5 doesn't have parity disk.
you do lose a disk for parity data, that's the way I've been thinking of
it in my mind, but I know the parity is spread across the disks
I setup a raid 5 with 5 18G disks. 3 for data, 1 for parity and one hot
swap. This config file I used is:
raiddev /dev/md0
raid-level5
nr-raid-disks 4
nr-spare-disks1
chunk-size 128
parity-algorithmleft-symmetric
device
I stumbled through the setup of our raid and it was working smoothly. So
then I wanted to test how things would recover from a failed disk. To
simulate a failed disk I did a dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb1 which
effectively crashed the raid. I stopped the raid and started ckraid
--force-check --fix /
