Re: RAID5 problem.

2008-06-23 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 11:30:32PM -0400, Matt Gracie wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Alex Samad wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 12:28:03PM -0400, Matt Gracie wrote: > > > >> [snip] [snip] > mogwai:~# uname -a > Linux mogwai 2.6.25-2-686 #1 SMP Tue May 27 15:38:35

Re: RAID5 problem.

2008-06-23 Thread Matt Gracie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alex Samad wrote: > On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 12:28:03PM -0400, Matt Gracie wrote: > >> [snip] > > The problem is that when I tried, using "mdadm /dev/md0 --add > /dev/sdd1", the rebuild would kick off and then fail after a short time, > marking all fo

Re: RAID5 problem.

2008-06-22 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 12:28:03PM -0400, Matt Gracie wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > [snip] > > The problem is that when I tried, using "mdadm /dev/md0 --add > /dev/sdd1", the rebuild would kick off and then fail after a short time, > marking all four drives as fault

RAID5 problem.

2008-06-22 Thread Matt Gracie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 For quite a while now, I've been running a software RAID5 using external firewire disks on a Debian Unstable system. The exact architecture was four 250 GB disks on one firewire controller, for a total of 750 GB of usable space. Last night, when I was