Matthew Glubb put forth on 7/17/2010 3:11 AM: > Normally in the past when a disk has failed, I have dropped the offending > disk from the array, replaced the disk, booted, rebuilt the filesystem on the > new disk and re-synced the array. I've done this about four times with this > method.
Once you fix your immediate problem you really need to address the larger issue, which is: Why are you suffering so many disk failures, apparently on a single host? The probability of one OP/host suffering 4 disk failures, even over a long period such as 10 years, is astronomically low. If you manage a server farm of a few dozen or more hosts and had one disk failure on each of four of them, the odds are bit higher. However in your case we're not talking about a farm situation are we? Are these disks really failing, or are you seeing the software RAID driver flag disks that aren't really going bad? What make/model disk drives are these that are apparently failing? Do you have sufficient airflow in the case to cool the drives? Is the host in an environment with a constant ambient temperature over 80 degrees Fahrenheit? -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c421052.9090...@hardwarefreak.com
