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From: Francois Romieu <romieu@cogenit.fr>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Quick question on Software RAID support.
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 10:24:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020213102416.A15790@fafner.intra.cogenit.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C69C5A6.4020409@reviewboard.com> <Pine.LNX.3.96.1020212230521.8017E-100000@gatekeeper.tmr.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1020212230521.8017E-100000@gatekeeper.tmr.com>; from davidsen@tmr.com on Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 11:10:55PM -0500

Greetings,

Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> :
[...]
> >From personal experience software RAID is quite fast, and very reliable
> regarding failures while running. If a disk fails the system drops back to
> recovery, and after a new drive is added and `raidhotadd' is run it is
> rebuilt.
> 
> The dark side of the force is that is a drive fails on boot, I have had

(raid1)
- planned reboot;
- spontaneous fsck;
- rarely accessed part of a disk isn't happy
- is it normal for an scsi error to take more than 10 minutes ?
- LRB
- removal of faulty drive;
- reboot;
- spontaneous fsck;
-> now there's a nice fs with a 3 months old content.

Interesting experience for an otherwise usual sunday.

Btw, this log entry is a bit terse:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/testing/patch-2.4.18.log
[...]
- Fix rare data loss case with RAID-1

-- 
Ueimor

  reply	other threads:[~2002-02-13  9:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-13  1:34 Mukund Ingle
2002-02-13  1:45 ` Alan Cox
2002-02-13  1:47   ` Chris Chabot
2002-02-13  4:10     ` Bill Davidsen
2002-02-13  9:24       ` Francois Romieu [this message]
2002-02-13  2:19   ` Rob Landley
2002-02-13 10:33   ` Marco Colombo
2002-02-13 11:15     ` Alan Cox
2002-02-13 14:25       ` Marco Colombo
2002-02-13 18:30       ` Mark Cooke
2002-02-13 21:33         ` Ville Herva
2002-02-13 21:54           ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-02-13 22:12             ` Ville Herva
2002-02-15 23:48               ` Mark Cooke
2002-02-16 17:01                 ` VIA KT133 (was: Re: Quick question on Software RAID support.) Ville Herva
2002-02-14 19:05       ` Quick question on Software RAID support Pavel Machek
2002-02-13 18:57 ` Thomas Schenk

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