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The problem wasn't really the filesystem I think. The card actualyl threw the disks out of the array and then refused to put them back in somehow.
by StarLite 16y ago
The problem wasn't really the filesystem I think. The card actualyl threw the disks out of the array and then refused to put them back in somehow.
- Kadin 16y agoWere you doing the RAID using the card's drivers (BIOS softraid/fakeraid), or using regular software RAID? It seems odd that the controller would drop drives like that, but I would never trust the "RAID" features of low-end interface cards ... they're barely competent at exposing the drives as bare block devices to the OS as it is. I've had decent enough luck with the real hardware-RAID cards from Dell, but they are expensive and if I were building a new server today, given the price of CPU cores, I'm not sure it would be at all worth the cost and SPOF risk. I've never had a card fail but if it did, that would suck. Back in the SCSI/PentiumII era they were fairly nice though -- I have a PERC still running in a closet, doing RAID5 across 5 74GB SCSIs. Probably about time to pull the plug on it though ... those five drives probably burn through their replacement cost in electricity every few months.
- dalore 16y agoYou should look at using software RAID. The performance is not as bad as it once was. Plus you don't get a corrupt controller which tend to be proprietary.