From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 06:59:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 06:59:06 -0500 Received: from mailer.pg.infn.it ([193.205.222.2]:1803 "EHLO mailer.pg.infn.it") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 06:59:04 -0500 Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 13:10:07 +0100 From: Gabriele Alberti To: lkml Subject: raid5 question Message-ID: <20030322131007.A17792@pc-ams7.pg.infn.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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