andy liebman wrote: > I tried simply unplugging one drive from its power and from its SATA > connector. The OS didn't like that at all. My KDE session kept running, > but I could no longer open any new terminals. I couldn't become root in > an existing terminal that was already running. And I couldn't SSH into > the machine. That's likely to be because sata hotswap isn't supported (yet). dmesg should give you more info. > I know that simply unplugging a drive is not the same as a drive failing > or timing out. But is there a more realistic way to simulate a failure > so that I can know that the mirror will work when it's needed? Read up on the md-faulty device. Also, FWIW, md works just fine :) (Lots of other things can go wrong so testing your setup is a food idea though) David - 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
