On Mon January 11 2010, Majed B. wrote: > Voltage spikes, disks heating (monitored by smartd) & sector > corruption (monitored by smartd) are what I can think of for the time > being. Would that actually make it so a hot spare wouldn't get used automatically? I thought the point of a hot spare was to take over for a failed disk /no matter what/. Doesn't really make much sense is many of the more common error cases cause a hot spare to be ignored. > On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Tim Bock <jtbock@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Excluding the obvious multi-disk or bus failures, can anyone describe > > what type of disk failure a raid cannot detect/recover from? > > > > I have had two disk failures over the last three months, and in spite > > of having a hot spare, manual intervention was required each time to > > make the raid usable again. I'm just not sure if I'm not setting > > something up right, or if there is some other issue. > > > > Thanks for any comments or suggestions. > > > > Tim > > > > -- > > 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 > -- Thomas Fjellstrom tfjellstrom@xxxxxxx -- 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
