software raid drive failed, please provide step bu step to rebuild
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Tue Aug 1 12:41:26 UTC 2006
On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 10:54 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 17:44 -0500, Jeff Vian wrote:
>
> > This toasted your /swp partition.
> > Raid 0 is striping, and a single failure toasts the entire device.
> >
> > You would have been ahead with a non-raid swap, and had 3 separate
> > partitions, one on each device, for swap. Failure of one would not have
> > toasted all.
>
> Yes, but losing swap will kill any processes that happened to be
> using it. The results of continuing to run with unpredictable
> things happening might be worse than crashing immediately.
>
I never said loss of a swap partition would not have consequences.
I said that by using multiple partitions for swap that losing one would
not totally lose the swap. A reboot with one failed will continue to
use the remaining parts and at least part of the swap will be available.
> --
> Les Mikesell
> lesmikesell at gmail.com
>
>
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