Re: [Lustre-discuss] Best way to recover an OST

2010-05-23 Thread Peter Grandi
We encountered a multi-disk failure on one of our mdadm RAID6 8+2 OSTs. 2 drives failed in the array within the space of a couple of hours and were replaced. There are many reports of multidrive failures, some pretty impressive e.g. 10 out of 20 on a long-running array after a restart. Because

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Best way to recover an OST

2010-05-21 Thread Andreas Dilger
On 2010-05-20, at 20:25, Mervini, Joseph A wrote: We encountered a multi-disk failure on one of our mdadm RAID6 8+2 OSTs. 2 drives failed in the array within the space of a couple of hours and were replaced. I guess the need for +3 parity is closer than we think... Fortunately I am able

[Lustre-discuss] Best way to recover an OST

2010-05-20 Thread Mervini, Joseph A
Hi, We encountered a multi-disk failure on one of our mdadm RAID6 8+2 OSTs. 2 drives failed in the array within the space of a couple of hours and were replaced. It is questionable whether both drives are actually bad because we are seeing the same behavior in a test environment where a bad