LVM problem <SOLVED>
Robin Laing
Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Fri Oct 7 15:08:59 UTC 2005
Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 15:32, Robin Laing wrote:
>
>>>I accept the fact that if one of the drives fail I will lose data.
>>>
>>
>>This makes an interesting point.
>>
>>I am using mirrored drives now as volumes. md0 and md1. If one drive
>>fails, I wonder how this will be handled.
>
>
> If they are RAID1 and the remaining hardware continues to work, the
> damage is that doing a
> cat /proc/mdstat
> will show one as failed. Otherwise you won't notice.
>
> Note that some failure modes on ide drives take any other drives
> on the same controller down too, and you may or may not be
> able to boot from the 2nd drive if the primary fails.
>
All my drives are SATA in the RAID and using software RAID1.
--
Robin Laing
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