Am 2011-01-17 21:15, schrieb Mark Knecht: > > It appears that the partition is part of a RAID? Has the RAID itself > protected you? Can you fail the drive, remove it, from the RAID, buy a > new drive and get going again? I think any RAID other than RAID0 will > withstand a single drive failure. right?
sdb6 is part of a mirror, yes. No loss of data so far, no failed arrays, nothing. Just that smartd-test failing last night and now I have to act. The 3 arrays are OK and also fully on tape, that's not the problem. My concern is about /dev/sdb5, which is the one and only PV inside the lvm2-VG VG01 (oh my, I fear Volker right now telling me about that LVM-stuff ;-) ). And VG01 hosts a few LVs, most of them easy to restore or rebuild, one of them containing around 700GBs of mythtv-recordings. Most of those are also on tape, but not all of them (because I run out of space with tapes etc). Nothing really important, sure, it's "just TV", but nice-to-have anyway. So I am moving stuff from that LV to another new RAID-array, just to save that data before sdb maybe crashes completely. In general I am rebuilding that whole box lately, adding drives etc. but I am not yet where I want to get because I hit one obstacle after the other. I suspect the power-supply to be faulty ( I also get chksum-errors in a zfs-fuse-pool, before and after using new disks ... so ...) RAM is good, at least as far memtest86+ is able to tell. *sigh* Thanks, Stefan
