software raid drive failed, please provide step bu step to rebuild
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Mon Jul 31 15:54:40 UTC 2006
On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 17:44 -0500, Jeff Vian wrote:
> This toasted your /swp partition.
> Raid 0 is striping, and a single failure toasts the entire device.
>
> You would have been ahead with a non-raid swap, and had 3 separate
> partitions, one on each device, for swap. Failure of one would not have
> toasted all.
Yes, but losing swap will kill any processes that happened to be
using it. The results of continuing to run with unpredictable
things happening might be worse than crashing immediately.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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