Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 22 Mar 2003 13:10:07 +0100 | From | Gabriele Alberti <> | Subject | raid5 question |
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Hello, I wanted to ask a (maybe stupid, I'm not a kernel hacker) question. In software raid5 (linux 2.4.18) why when there is a multiple disk failure (no spare disks) does the raid device continue to work? It couldn't be better if the device hangs? It happened to me to have 2 disks stopped (I don't know why, they were not broken) but the raid5 device continued to work, so when I restarted the system and the "faulty" disks, the raid (mkraid -f) actually restored the filesystem but with filesystem corruption; I guess this happened because someone wrote to the faulty raid.
Does it work so or I'm missing something? (I'm sure about the n.2 :-)
Thanks in advance, best regards,
Gabriele Alberti
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