Re: Test with raid 6 software

2008-01-30 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 05:36:35PM +0100, Pol Hallen wrote: > > NOTE WELL: The md(4) man pages says that raid6 can handle the failure of > > any 2 disks. You pulled 3. Good way to hose the array. > Is failure the same of disconnession of disk? As far as the raid system is, yes a missing disk is

Re: Test with raid 6 software

2008-01-30 Thread Pol Hallen
> NOTE WELL: The md(4) man pages says that raid6 can handle the failure of > any 2 disks. You pulled 3. Good way to hose the array. Is failure the same of disconnession of disk? I thinked there is it so. Because if the disk crash the all data are lost, but I if disconnect the disk there are dat

Re: Test with raid 6 software

2008-01-30 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 01:52:49PM +0100, Pol Hallen wrote: > I've 8 sata disk on raid 6 software (debian stable). > > For purpose test I stopped 3 disks of the array. NOTE WELL: The md(4) man pages says that raid6 can handle the failure of any 2 disks. You pulled 3. Good way

Test with raid 6 software

2008-01-30 Thread Pol Hallen
Good day :-) I've 8 sata disk on raid 6 software (debian stable). For purpose test I stopped 3 disks of the array. Now I rebooted and I tring to re-assemble the array but without successful.. mdadm -A /dev/md0 mdadm: /dev/md0 assembled from 5 drives and 3 spares - not enough to start the arra