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Tag: RAID
Preventing degraded array on every boot
I had a server that booted with a degraded array every time, because there was a USB drive attached to it, that messed up the auto detection. I solved it by putting this in mdadm.conf:
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Broken disk went undetected, but did corrupt data
I had a disk in one of my servers that was starting to give ATA errors in the syslog. Contrary to what you might think, ATA errors are fairly common, so I didn't immediately sound the alarm. However, this disk turned out to be corrupting data. During upgrading Debian 6 to 7, the file system became read-only. Rebooting gave me a recovery shell and e2fsck gave me millions of questions.
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Adding a disk to a RAID5 array on a 3Ware array with tw_cli
I wanted to know if I could extend the size of a RAID5 array on the 3Ware 9650SE, so I tried something.
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Aligning partitions with RAID and LVM on drives with 4 kB sectors
Hard disks are being released that abandon the long-established standard of 512 byte sectors. I just got two Western Digital WD15EARS ones, which uses 4 kB sectors. Western Digital Refers to this as "Advanced Format". This poses some serious problems. I will describe those, and what I did to 'solve' it.
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Installing Arch Linux on RAID+LVM
I just installed Arch Linux on a RAID1+LVM, which involved some work. There already is a nice article about it, but I wanted to summarize for myself.
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Sending SMS notifications of md device failure
I just wrote a script to send sms from a unix machine and I thought it would be a good idea to add an sms notification to mdadm. Therefore I wrote this script, called handle-md-event.sh:
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Installing grub on RAID1
When you have your kernel image and grub boot stages on a Linux software RAID1 partition, installing grub needs a bit of trickery.
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