This a report about real production experiment using both Linux
software RAID and a Mylex hardware RAID controler (real production
tend to be even harder than tests, even on a lower load, since
more special situations append).
My production server has:
2 x 8GB linux software RAID 1, Buslogic
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 17:35:22 +0200
From: Hubert Tonneau [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This a report about real production experiment using both Linux
software RAID and a Mylex hardware RAID controler (real production
tend to be even harder than tests, even on a lower load, since
more
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Aug 13 12:00:21 2000
[snip]
So, the final unanswered question is why did the Mylex controler failed
that ungracefully if no disk contains dead blocks ?
My experimental conclusion is that Linux software RAID is even more
reliable (the two RAID sets
Leonard N. Zubkoff wrote:
Generally, the Mylex PCI RAID controllers take disks offline when certain types
of unrecoverable errors occur. The driver will log the reason for any disk
being killed as a console message. Without further information as to precisely
why the disks were taken
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 19:03:27 +0200
From: Hubert Tonneau [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I removed the Mylex controler, and since it's a production server,
I cannot do experiments on this one, so I cannot get any more informations
(I'm sorry about that because I find very important to spend some
