[K12OSN] RAID let me down...
Eric Harrison
eharrison at mail.mesd.k12.or.us
Tue Feb 13 14:57:45 UTC 2007
Shawn Powers wrote:
> I had one of my hard drives fail in a hardware RAID5 array this
> morning. Along with the drive failure, I have thousands, maybe hundreds
> of thousands of file corruptions, missing inodes, etc, etc. I've been
> fscking all morning. So much for fault tolerance.
>
> My question to the list, is should I switch to a software based array?
> I use software RAID5 at home, and apart from figuring out *which* drive
> is "drive 4", I've been able to replace a bad drive without any real
> headaches.
>
> Any suggestions on what I should do next? Apart from quitting my job
> and applying at McDonalds...
>
> -Shawn
Yesterday I worked on a software RAID5 that blew chunks. No permanent
damage, but it did not fail gracefully - the bad drive hung the SCSI
bus. I had to do a manual fsck after power-cycling. It *could* have been
bad.
Backups, backups are good ;-)
-Eric
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