Re: A sad raid/fsck story

2019-11-15 Thread sven falempin
On Sat, Oct 5, 2019 at 8:39 AM Nick Holland wrote: > > On 10/4/19 8:37 AM, sven falempin wrote: > ... > > How [do I] check the state of the MIRROR raid array , to detect large > > amount of failures on one of the two disk ? > > > > Best. > > > > fsck has NOTHING to do with the status of your

Re: A sad raid/fsck story

2019-10-05 Thread Nick Holland
On 10/4/19 8:37 AM, sven falempin wrote: ... > How [do I] check the state of the MIRROR raid array , to detect large > amount of failures on one of the two disk ? > > Best. > fsck has NOTHING to do with the status of your drives. It's a File System ChecKer. Your disk can be covered with

Re: A sad raid/fsck story

2019-10-05 Thread Gwen Nelson
RAID is not a backup solution and should not be treated as one On Fri, Oct 4, 2019, 3:41 PM sven falempin wrote: > On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 8:10 AM Nick Holland > wrote: > > > > On 10/3/19 10:01 AM, sven falempin wrote: > > > Dear readers, > > > > > > I was running a OpenBSD (6.4) device, with a

Re: A sad raid/fsck story

2019-10-04 Thread sven falempin
On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 8:10 AM Nick Holland wrote: > > On 10/3/19 10:01 AM, sven falempin 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, > > Probably not quite that simple. More likely,

Re: A sad raid/fsck story

2019-10-04 Thread Nick Holland
On 10/3/19 10:01 AM, sven falempin 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, Probably not quite that simple. More likely, the disk failed, that took the system down hard, and it needed an

Re: A sad raid/fsck story

2019-10-03 Thread Aaron Mason
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 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, >

A sad raid/fsck story

2019-10-03 Thread sven falempin
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