Re: disk status confusion -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: disk status confusion
From: "Larry \"DrFranken\" Bolhuis" <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2021 14:13:53 -0500
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Jack is correct.

The drives currently showing unprotected will be toast if *another* of those fails.

Replace and rebuilt the dead guy 'with the quickness' and consider enabling hot spare!

- DrF

On 2/15/2021 2:04 PM, Jack Callahan wrote:

Thomas: you’re not hosed yet.

Raid5 offers protection from 1 disk drive failure.

Looks like one of your drives has failed.

If you replace the failed drive, the system should be able to set the
parity on the new drive and you’ll be back to raid 5 protected once that
operation completes.

If another drive fails before that happens, the system will be unable to
reset parity, and you’ll need to restore the system from a backup (or start
from scratch).

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