As far as I know I fixed the hot-spare thing on ami. If that is not the case let me know.
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 02:29:23PM -0600, Matthew Mulrooney wrote: > Gaby, please be aware of this thread: > > http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=120349790515559 > > AFAIK the LSI/bioctl hot spare issue still exists. If you have created > your hot spare using bioctl -H, it *will* look like a hot spare, but it > probably will *not* act like one. > > You might want to give it a test to confirm, and then use the workaround > described in that thread to correctly recreate the hot spare (it will > require one reboot). > > Matthew > > On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Gaby Vanhegan wrote: > >> We had a drive failure on a RAID5 (LSI MegaRaid SATA 150-4) volume in our >> server (OpenBSD 4.1/x86). The hot spare kicked in and the volume rebuilt >> fine after a successful fsck in single user mode. We put in a new drive >> as the new hot spare: >> >> # bioctl -Div ami0 >> bioctl: cookie = 0xd2a23c10 >> bio_inq >> bio_inq { 0xd2a23c10, ami0, 2, 4 } >> Volume Status Size Device >> ami0 0 Online 501991079936 sd0 RAID5 >> 0 Online 250995539968 0:0.0 noencl <Maxtor 6V250F0 >> VA11> >> 'V594LE9G' >> 1 Online 250995539968 0:1.0 noencl <Maxtor 6V250F0 >> VA11> >> 'V5075JVG' >> 2 Online 250995539968 0:3.0 noencl <Maxtor 6V250F0 >> VA11> >> 'V5064EEG' >> ami0 1 Hot spare 250053918720 0:2.0 noencl <WDC WD2500AAKS-00VSA01.0> >> ' WD-WMART1158126' >> # >> >> The thing is the hot spare is fractionally smaller than the other drives, >> which is what happens when you go into a shop and ask for a 250G drive. >> What's going to happen if another drive fails and the RAID array tries to >> rebuild onto the slightly smaller hot spare? Will it explode or just >> error out? Do we need to go back and put a slightly larger drive in? >> >> I know this isn't the ideal place to ask the question but I figure we >> can't be the only people running LSI cards under OpenBSD. So far I can't >> find any good references on the 'net but my logic and intuition tells me >> that the drive needs to be bigger... >> >> G. >> >> -- >> Being drunk is feeling sophisticated without being able to say it. >> http://www.playr.co.uk/
