> Hey Seth,
>
> Sorry to hear about your drive failures. To me, this is something that
> most people ignore about RAID5: Lose more than one drive and everything is
> toast. Good reason to have a drive setup as a hot spare, not to mention an
> extra drive laying on the shelf. And hold your breathe
On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Seth Vidal wrote:
> Hi,
> We've been using the sw raid 5 support in linux for about 2-3 months now.
> We've had good luck with it.
>
> Until this week.
>
> In this one week we've lost two drives on a 3 drive array. Completely
> eliminating the array. We have good backups,
> Could this be a powersupply failure?
For example. I've seen 144 V on the motherboard. None of the drives
survived as you can expect. It was after a storm with lightnings :-)
Szilva
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Hi,
We've been using the sw raid 5 support in linux for about 2-3 months now.
We've had good luck with it.
Until this week.
In this one week we've lost two drives on a 3 drive array. Completely
eliminating the array. We have good backups, made everynight, so the data
is safe. The problem is thi
Hello...
I've been working with the RAID code on two disk failures. You may have
noticed my earlier patch that cleans things up a bit when this happens... at
least now you can umount the disk and reboot.
A couple of issues are in my head about how raid5 handles this, and I
thought I'd solicit s
