On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Paul Hartman > My worry was that if the mdraid daemon saw one drive gone - either > when starting to spin down or when one spins up slowly - and if mdraid > didn't understand that all this stuff was taking place intentionally > then it might mark that drive as having failed.
Does mdraid even have an awareness of timeouts, or does it leave that to lower drivers? I think the latter condition is more likely. I suspect, though, that if your disk fails to spin up reasonably quickly, it's already failed. -- :wq
