From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Greaves Subject: Re: Help needed - RAID5 recovery from Power-fail Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 07:30:23 +0100 Message-ID: <4432127F.9040805@dgreaves.com> References: <4431B2B3.9080700@nigelterry.net> <17457.46503.897583.343329@cse.unsw.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <17457.46503.897583.343329@cse.unsw.edu.au> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: "Nigel J. Terry" Cc: Neil Brown , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Neil Brown wrote: >On Monday April 3, nigel@nigelterry.net wrote: > > >>I wonder if you could help a Raid Newbie with a problem >> >> >It looks like you lost a drive a while ago. Did you notice? > This is not unusual - raid just keeps on going if a disk fails. When things are working again you really should read up on "mdadm -F" - it runs as a daemon and sends you mail if any raid events occur. See if FC4 has a script that automatically runs it - you may need to tweak some config parameters somewhere (I use Debian so I'm not much help). David