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From: Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 3TB drives failure rate
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 18:24:13 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <508DB08D.20002@meetinghouse.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <508DADC3.4080104@shiftmail.org>

joystick wrote:
>
> This thing of "drives falling out of RAID" I have heard many times, 
> but really don't know what people are talking about.
> How could a drive fall out of a RAID? A RAID is nothing special, it's 
> just read/write commands given to a drive by a process called MD.
> If the drive drops out of RAID it means it would have dropped out of a 
> normal computer doing normal I/O
> Please explain

The RAID erroneously thinks that a drive has failed, and drops it from 
the array.


-- 
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is.   .... Yogi Berra


  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-28 22:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-28 12:15 3TB drives failure rate Rainer Fügenstein
2012-10-28 12:19 ` Mathias Burén
2012-10-28 12:49   ` John Robinson
2012-10-28 12:54 ` Michael Tokarev
2012-10-28 16:47 ` Ed W
2012-10-28 17:05   ` Joe Landman
2012-10-28 22:12     ` joystick
2012-10-28 22:24       ` Miles Fidelman [this message]
2012-10-28 23:59         ` joystick
2012-10-29  0:09           ` Miles Fidelman
2012-10-29  4:29             ` Roman Mamedov
2012-10-29  7:54               ` David Brown
2012-10-29 13:02                 ` Phil Turmel
2012-10-30 23:54                   ` 3TB drives failure rate (summary) Rainer Fügenstein
2012-10-31 12:35                     ` Phil Turmel
2012-11-01 15:13                       ` Miles Fidelman
2012-11-01 15:24                         ` John Robinson
2012-11-01 15:39                           ` Miles Fidelman
2012-11-01 16:05                             ` John Robinson
2012-11-01 16:25                               ` Miles Fidelman
2013-02-05 17:43                       ` Adam Goryachev
2013-02-05 18:08                         ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2013-02-05 20:34                         ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-10-29 13:26               ` 3TB drives failure rate Miles Fidelman
2012-10-28 19:50 ` Chris Murphy
2012-10-28 19:59   ` Roman Mamedov
2012-10-28 20:10     ` Chris Murphy
2012-10-28 20:16       ` Roman Mamedov
2012-10-28 20:34         ` Chris Murphy
2012-10-28 20:49           ` Roman Mamedov
2012-10-28 20:59             ` Chris Murphy
2012-10-28 21:07               ` Miles Fidelman
2012-10-28 20:50           ` Chris Murphy
2012-10-28 21:07             ` Chris Murphy
2012-10-28 21:18               ` Roman Mamedov
2012-10-28 21:24                 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2012-10-28 21:45                 ` Miles Fidelman
2012-10-28 22:35                   ` Chris Murphy
2012-10-28 21:51                 ` Chris Murphy
2012-10-28 21:59           ` joystick
2012-10-28 22:10             ` Phil Turmel
2012-10-29  0:12               ` joystick
2012-10-29  0:21                 ` Phil Turmel
2012-10-29  0:27                 ` Chris Murphy
2012-10-28 21:21 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2012-10-28 23:51 ` Peter Kieser

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