On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 13:15, I. Forbes wrote: > - If you have a "glitch" on a drive the raid will mark the partition > as defective possibly when there is no permanent damage. You have to > reboot the server before you can attempt to bring this partition back > on line. Once rebooted you can attempt to re-sync the drives.
That is strange. On many occasions I have had a transient error or a failing drive drop out of a RAID but then work fine when I ran raidhotadd... > Be very careful to set-up and check your cron scripts. If a drive > fails, you need the machine to send an e-mail to an address where you > know it is going to be read and acted upon! You do not want that e- > mail buried in 1000 other system warnings that get deleted without > being read. The raidtools2 package comes with a cron script that does well in this regard. -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
