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From: Joachim Otahal <Jou@gmx.net>
To: jin zhencheng <zhenchengjin@gmail.com>
Cc: neilb@suse.de, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BUG:write data to degrade raid5
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:20:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BA3C07A.8030204@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <de04351e1003190329l2f33447bhe37b963bd4b48c70@mail.gmail.com>

jin zhencheng schrieb:
> hi;
>
> i use kernel is 2.6.26.2
>
> what i do as follow:
>
> 1, I create a raid5:
> mdadm -C /dev/md5 -l 5 -n 4 /dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc  /dev/sdd
> --metadata=1.0 --assume-clean
>
> 2, dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/md5 bs=1M&
>
> write data to this raid5
>
> 3, mdadm --manage /dev/md5 -f /dev/sda
>
> 4 mdadm --manage  /dev/md5 -f /dev/sdb
>
> if i faild 2 disks ,then the OS kernel display OOP error and kernel down
>
> do somebody know why ?
>
> Is MD/RAID5 bug ?
>    

RAID5 can only tolerate ONE drive to fail of ALL members. If you want to 
be able to fail two drives you will have to use RAID6 or RAID5 with one 
hot-spare (and give it time to rebuild before failing the second drive).
PLEASE read the documentation on raid levels, like on wikipedia.

Joachim Otahal


  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-19 18:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-19 10:29 BUG:write data to degrade raid5 jin zhencheng
2010-03-19 18:20 ` Joachim Otahal [this message]
2010-03-19 18:30   ` Robin Hill
     [not found]   ` <73e903671003191123h1b7e1196v336265842f1b29e5@mail.gmail.com>
2010-03-19 18:26     ` Kristleifur Daðason
2010-03-19 18:37     ` Joachim Otahal
2010-03-21 10:29       ` jin zhencheng
2010-03-21 13:04         ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2010-03-22  1:41           ` jin zhencheng
2010-03-20 15:50 ` Bill Davidsen
2010-03-23  3:16 ` Neil Brown

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