On Wednesday 29 June 2005 05:38 pm, Eric Pretorious wrote: >So it would appear that sda7 has failed. Is that correct? I was in the process of reading this portion of /var/log/messages... >SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 10000 >I/O error: dev 08:07, sector 2980224 >raid1: disk failure on sda7, disabling device. > Operation continuing on 1 devices >raid1: mirro resync was not fully finished, restarting next time. >md4: no spare disk to reconstruct array! -- continuing in degraded mode >md: md_do_sync() got signal ... exiting > ... >md: autorun >md: considering sdb7 ... >md: adding sdb7 ... >md: adding sdb7 ... >md: created md4 >md: bind<sda7,1> >md: bind<sdb7,2> >md: running: <sdb7><sda7> >md: sdb7's event counter: 0000002b >md: sda7's event counter: 0000002a >md: superblcokc update time inconsistency -- using the most recent one >md: freshest: sdb7 >md4: kicking faulty sda7! >md: unbind<sda7,1> >md: export rdev(sda7) >mf: md4: raid array is not clean -- starting background reconstruction ...when the system choked, again. Ug! I expected that a mirror would be more robust than to bring-down the entire system when one RAID member fails. Was this assumption incorrect? -- Eric P., Truckee, CA - 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