On Sunday October 10, mingz@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I have a question on RAID error detect. hope somebody can help me to > find it out. thanks. > > take raid1 as an example, if one disk fail, raid 1 can detect the data > on disk is compromised and then reconstruct it using a spare disk. this > is straight forward. > > but if one request comes to raid1 and raid1 sends requests to both > disks, at this time, system reboots because power outage, system > crashes, or any other reason. then after system reboots, how raid 1 > detects which disk has consistent data? since before reboot, anything > can happen, data may in disk1 but not in disk2, or in disk2 but not in > disk1, or not in both disks, or already on both disks. When you have a computer with a single drive, and it crashes due to power outage or similar, and it was in the process of writing data out to disk, the contents of those blocks that were being written is undefined. It might have the old data. It might have the new data. If there are multiple blocks being written, some might be "old", some might be "new". Exactly the same is true with RAID1. There is "right" value for any block that was in the process of being written. RAID1 simply chooses a value and makes sure that it is the same on both (all) drives. It arbitrarily chooses the "first" drive in the array and copies that onto the rest. > > how raid1 or other raid code deal with this? This sort of inconsistency is not really something for RAID to deal with. It is something for the filesystem or application to deal with. Possibly via journalling. Possibly via 'fsck'. NeilBrown > > > ming > > > -- > -------------------------------------------------- > | Ming Zhang, PhD. Student > | Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering > | College of Engineering > | University of Rhode Island > | Kingston RI. 02881 > | e-mail: mingz at ele.uri.edu > | Tel. (401) 874-2293 > | Fax. (401) 782-6422 > | http://www.ele.uri.edu/~mingz/ > | http://crab.ele.uri.edu/gallery/albums.php > -------------------------------------------------- > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
