i built a centos 5.4 server for samba using 5 1tb drives i had left over.
i decided to use software raid across all 5 disks
partitioned /boot (md0) and the swap (md1) as raid 1
cloning the 200mb partitions on all 5 disks
partitioned / (md2) as the rest of the space as raid 5
again cloning on all 5 disks
everything seemed perfect until i wanted to see how it would respond to a drive failing, so i shut it down and unplugged /dev/sde
powered it back up, everything looked great
powered off, reattached cable, powered back up and...
md0 and md2 show sda has been removed however md1 showed sda is all fine..
im so mind boggled by the fact that only the swap array sees sda, and that the one i unplugged was sde..
any insight is greatly appreciated
thanks for your time
i decided to use software raid across all 5 disks
partitioned /boot (md0) and the swap (md1) as raid 1
cloning the 200mb partitions on all 5 disks
partitioned / (md2) as the rest of the space as raid 5
again cloning on all 5 disks
everything seemed perfect until i wanted to see how it would respond to a drive failing, so i shut it down and unplugged /dev/sde
powered it back up, everything looked great
powered off, reattached cable, powered back up and...
md0 and md2 show sda has been removed however md1 showed sda is all fine..
im so mind boggled by the fact that only the swap array sees sda, and that the one i unplugged was sde..
any insight is greatly appreciated
thanks for your time