Topic: What happens when a Raid-1 drive fails on e-smith?

[pistonpilot]

What happens when a mirrored drive totally fails?  Does e-smith drop it out of the system and use the 1 drive or does it require a reconfiguration and reboot?

[ldkeen]

When a drive in a mirror on SME 6 fails the system marks the drive as failed and carries on as though nothing had happened. You can then power down the system and replace the failed drive then rebuild the raid at your leisure.
Regards Lloyd

[pistonpilot]

Quite different from the Microsoft way.  I normally would not use software raid but in this case the machine is fast enough.  I have a machine with a questionable drive in a raid array.  I'm running Spinrite on it now.

If it fails, this is exactly what I want to happen.  How would e-smith tell me that it failed other than reading the logs?

Also, is there a howto detailing how to rebuild the array with a new drive?

[Henk]

There's a nice contrib for this. You can find the raidmonitor and howto's here:

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/smeserver/contribs/index.php?subdir=dmay%2Fsmeserver%2F5.x%2Fcontrib%2Fraidmonitor&sortby=name

It's made for 5.x but also works without a problem on sme 6.0 and 6.01.01[/url]