Hi,
I was wondering about the following:
Superblocks, and all RAID metadata, are stored on disks (to assemble the
RAID), and also on the RAID (while assembled), and are necessary to run
a RAID correctly, so long as at least <parity reached> of superblocks on
disks are available, as <parity reached> number of disks are required
for a specific RAID level to run (this excludes RAID 0 obviously).
This means that so long as less than 1 disk fails in RAID5, no more than
one superblock will be lost and therefore the RAID can still assemble,
and the metadata be read.
However, in modern RAID systems, the disks are all connected through a
single path, being a SAS cable connected to a JBOD or a single SATA
controller that can fail/crash.
Also, the RAID is not protected against power failure, which in my head
are a bit equivalent to a complete disk link failure (SAS cable pulled).
In these cases where all the disks are lost at once, what is the
probability of superblock corruption (both on the RAID superblock and
the individual disks)?
If the superblock was being written during the failure, would it be
incompletely written and therefore corrupted?
How reliably is it to keep a RAID alive (being able to re-assemble it)
after continuously pulling and pushing the SAS cable?
Regards,
Ben.
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