Thanks for the cautionary tale. Will definitely keep this in mind for any RAID arrays I manage.
On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 2:04 AM sven falempin <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear readers, > > I was running a OpenBSD (6.4) device, with a raid mirror array. > One of the disk failed, so the system ask me to fsck, > which I did before checking the raid status manually ( :'( ) , > THEN I rebooted and softraid told me: one of the hard drive is dead. > > But fsck already destroyed a few file on the mirror. > > Probably a user error, nevertheless, In openbsd 'simply work' mindset, > maybe the /etc/rc could warn or even perform some bioctl check on raid > array when first fsck / mount > fails. > > Cheers. > > ( Lost data recovered from backup ) -- Aaron Mason - Programmer, open source addict I've taken my software vows - for beta or for worse
