Recovery from RAID5 Failure Questions

From: Trevor Williams <trwi_at_perth.DIALix.oz.au>
Date: 1997/01/23
Message-ID: <5c7jh6$pcb$1@perth.DIALix.oz.au>#1/1

I would appreciate hearing about DBAs' experiences with handling disk problems where a failing RAID5 disk holds database files. In particular, I am interested in RAID5 on Solaris.

Do databases continue to function after a single disk failure? How well?

How trivial is the replacing of the failed disk? How can the outage time be minimised?

After replacing a broken disk and getting Solaris to synchronise it, is it necessary to do a database recovery?

What other things are useful to know about the process of recovery from RAID5 disk failure? Received on Thu Jan 23 1997 - 00:00:00 CST