LVM problem <SOLVED>

[Robin Laing]

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