It all went west before it finished syncing my swap space, which never
gets used... so I don't know if it would really have stopped working...
but there was no indication that it would have stopped working....
everything continued in degraded mode, and when I change the disk and
reboot I expect it'll be fine!
On Sat, 26 Jun 1999, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> On Sat, 26 Jun 1999, A James Lewis wrote:
>
> > I found a problem... I think....
> >
> > I recently had a disk failure, on my raid1 (mirror) array, the raid system
> > handled things well... but I decided to give the disk a second chance
> > after a power cycle... it came up and I removed the faulty disk with
> > raidhotremove....
> >
> > Then I added it back again with raidhotadd....
> >
> > It started to sync, got 6% through and then failed again.... The system
> > marked it as faulty, but wasn't able to stop the resync...
> >
> > It then had marked the disk as faulty, so I again raidhotremoved it....
> > It removed OK, but then I had a system which was trying to sync, but only
> > had one disk.... raidstop hung and things went downhill from there!
> >
> > Hope this means somthing to someone!
>
> yeah, this looks like a real bug, thanks. Will look into this. Are things
> now OK (i guess you had to reboot)? Probably the fact that after 6% you
> had a failure means that the disk has a permanent failure.
>
> -- mingo
>
A.J. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Sometimes you're ahead, somtimes you're behind.
The race is long, and in the end it's only with yourself.
