From: Gabriele Alberti <gabriele.alberti@pg.infn.it>
To: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: raid5 question
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 13:10:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030322131007.A17792@pc-ams7.pg.infn.it> (raw)
Hello,
I wanted to ask a (maybe stupid, I'm not a kernel hacker) question.
In software raid5 (linux 2.4.18) why when there is a multiple disk failure
(no spare disks) does the raid device continue to work? It couldn't be better
if the device hangs? It happened to me to have 2 disks stopped
(I don't know why, they were not broken) but the raid5 device continued to work,
so when I restarted the system and the "faulty" disks, the raid (mkraid -f)
actually restored the filesystem but with filesystem corruption; I guess
this happened because someone wrote to the faulty raid.
Does it work so or I'm missing something? (I'm sure about the n.2 :-)
Thanks in advance, best regards,
Gabriele Alberti
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