Re: Grown defects in a RAID array

2003-08-21 Thread Alec . Cawley
> I've notice that when grown defects (bad blocks on the disk caused by > usage over time) that my dedicated mysql server is adversely effected. > Since the action of Grown defects does not flush the table with a write > lock-that the block marked as bad will effect prior to that block > becomin

Re: Grown defects in a RAID array

2003-08-20 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 20), Dathan Vance Pattishall said: > I've notice that when grown defects (bad blocks on the disk caused by > usage over time) that my dedicated mysql server is adversely > effected. Affected how? The grown defect list is usually reserved for blocks that were discovered to

Grown defects in a RAID array

2003-08-20 Thread Dathan Vance Pattishall
I've notice that when grown defects (bad blocks on the disk caused by usage over time) that my dedicated mysql server is adversely effected. Since the action of Grown defects does not flush the table with a write lock-that the block marked as bad will effect prior to that block becoming a grown d