On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Joe Rhett wrote: > On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 09:59:16PM -0800, Doug White wrote: > > Thats a nice shotgun you have there. > > Yessir. And that's what testing is designed to uncover. The question is > why this works, and how do we prevent it?
I'm sure Soren appreciates you donating your feet to the cause :) Why it works: the system assumes the administrator is competent enough to not yank a disk that is being rebuilt to. > Is there a proper way to handle these sort of events? If so, where is it > documented? > > And fyi just pulling the drives causes the same failure so that means that > RAID1 buys you nothing because your system will also crash. This is why I don't trust ATA RAID for fault tolerance -- it'll save your data, but the system will tank. Since the disk state is maintained by the OS and not abstracted by a separate processor, if a disk dies in a particularly bad way the system may not be able to cope. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
