Re: Need advice on RAID5

RHUZ94A_at_prodigy.com (John Flack) writes:

>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.

What RAID hardware was involved?

M Willett
Storage Computer
http://www.storage.com Received on Tue Apr 02 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST