Re: Good news / bad news - The joys of RAID

Chris Siebenmann wrote:

You write:
| Thinking about what happened, I would have expected that the bad
| drive would just be removed from the array and spare activated and
| re-syncing started automatically.

 This is what is supposed to happen; when the hardware winds are blowing
in the right direction and the software recognizes everything, it even
really does happen.

Chris,

I suspect that what happened is that the array was in the process of 
re-syncing when I powered off the box because it had frozen because of 
an ATA timeout error.

When I re-booted, the RAID1 root partition was dirty and wouldn't 
re-sync while the RAID 5 array was re-syncing.

Whatever, I got it back up and running by disconnecting the failed drive.

Cheers,

R.
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