Re: Need advice on RAID5
From: John Flack <RHUZ94A_at_prodigy.com>
Date: 1996/04/01
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Date: 1996/04/01
Message-ID: <4jnk39$10f4_at_usenetw1.news.prodigy.com>#1/1
In testing, we had the same good experience - pull a drive, and the database stays up and running, albeit a bit slower. Put in a fresh drive, and after a short while you are back in business as if nothing happened.
However, in real life we lost a drive under circumstances (still an unsolved mystery) that caused the hot recovery to fail. At that point, we were forced to repartition and restore the entire RAID from a backup. Then we had to recover the database. We had some missteps in the recovery process because Unix was reporting that some of the file systems on the RAID were good, when actually ALL of the file systems on the RAID needed to be restored. Received on Mon Apr 01 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST