From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 15:51:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 15:51:22 -0500 Received: from ns.ithnet.com ([217.64.64.10]:7174 "HELO heather.ithnet.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 15:51:17 -0500 Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 21:51:08 +0100 From: Stephan von Krawczynski To: "Simen Thoresen" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ReiserFS and RAID5 Message-Id: <20020124215108.71602cb2.skraw@ithnet.com> In-Reply-To: <200201242129150390.0006952E@mail.online.no> In-Reply-To: <15440.22127.875361.718680@abasin.nj.nec.com> <20020124200645.53dca41c.skraw@ithnet.com> <15440.23830.178152.579775@abasin.nj.nec.com> <20020124204938.39fa1960.skraw@ithnet.com> <200201242129150390.0006952E@mail.online.no> Organization: ith Kommunikationstechnik GmbH X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 21:29:15 +0100 "Simen Thoresen" wrote: > >Is anybody out there that ever survived a hd crash in SW RAID5 config? > >(Meaning _without_ need to reboot) > > Survived and survived.... > > I had a drive lose power (flaky connector) in a 4 drive setup (2x hpt370 dual channel controllers, each with a 30G IBM ide-drive on each channel - Using IDE and Raid-patches for 2.2.17). The result was a readable, but unwritable array. A streamed mp3 played flawlessly while the drive 'died', while my download (over smb) just froze. > > Rebuilding the array (after a reboot) went ok, but during rebuild the 'new' drive appeared to be drive #5 in the 4-disk set, with drive #3 still dead. Why is it not writeable? What about a runtime fallover to a spare disk? Regards, Stephan