[DRBD-user] Hardware RAID-5

David Coulson david at davidcoulson.net
Thu May 29 02:47:50 CEST 2008

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


If you lose a disk in the array, it's going to be degraded, not failed, 
right? The OS and anything above it (drbd) is not even going to see that 
the array has a problem.

Armando Ortiz wrote:
> I'm putting together two 4TB fileservers and my question is this:  If 
> one drive on the array fails on either the primary or secondary, do I 
> have to do anything special with DRBD to replace the failing drive in 
> the array on any of the fileservers before I fail it out in the 
> software that performs maintenance on the array?
>
> If it's just as simple as failing the drive using the controller's own 
> software, replacing it and letting it rebuild 'hot' (not a hot spare) 
> then I'm good to go...otherwise what do I have to look forward to?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
>
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