At Wednesday, 15 December 2004, Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com> wrote:
>On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Harland Christofferson wrote: > >> I am curious about how to know if it is working. If cat-ting /proc/mdstat >> is knowing all about the raid array, then so-be-it. > >when you think its working .. > >power down .. pull one disk out ... > power up .. write a 2GB or 4GB file on the degraded array > and wait for it to finish, and power down > >stick the first disk back in and see that when it powers up, >that it will resync the new 4GB file onto the 2nd disk > >do the same with each of the other disk pulled out .. > >if it always resync ... its working > >if you have to touch the keyboard to make it work, >than its NOT working > only "cat /proc/mdstat" is allowed > any other raid commands says the raid is not working > >c ya >alvin > but, what if i write a file to /dev/hda6 (/home), then i mount /dev/hdc6 to /mnt/hdc6 ... should i see the newly written file in the same place on /mnt/hdc6 as was written on /dev/hda6 ? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Zero Crossings, Inc. -- Embedded and Digital Signal Processing Systems http://www.zerocrossings.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]