From: EJ Vincent <ej@ejane.org>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Degraded Raid6
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 14:17:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50CA29BB.5070407@ejane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15214561.24.1355424666351.JavaMail.root@zimbra>
On 12/13/2012 1:51 PM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
>> I run an 8-disk raid 6 on which sporadically 2 drives dropped out,
>> that I could just re-add when I zeroed the zuperblock beforehand.
>> Recently, upon re-adding those 2 drives (after the zero-superblock) a
>> third drive dropped out after 5-10 minutes of syncing. I then did a
>> zero-superblock on the third drive and tried to re-add it - which
>> failed.
> ...
>> 10 8 113 - spare /dev/sdh1
>> 11 8 1 - spare /dev/sda1
>> 12 8 65 - spare /dev/sde1
> If you had two drives failing, why didn't you let these spares take over the job?
Roy,
AFAIK, they were mistakenly labeled as spares, *after* the failure
occurred. sdh, sda, and sde were original members of his array.
-EJ
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-13 19:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <S1754985Ab2LLT4x/20121212195656Z+425@vger.kernel.org>
2012-12-12 20:49 ` Degraded Raid6 Bernd Waage
2012-12-13 8:54 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2012-12-13 9:52 ` Robin Hill
2012-12-13 18:51 ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2012-12-13 19:17 ` EJ Vincent [this message]
2012-12-13 21:30 ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
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