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: Read More »
By halfgaar, 3 years ago, on April 27, 2016, at 09:04 | 1 comment

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. Read More »
By halfgaar, 6 years ago, on September 06, 2013, at 15:09 | Comments closed

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. Read More »
By halfgaar, 8 years ago, on February 17, 2011, at 12:02 | 2 comments

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. Read More »
By halfgaar, 9 years ago, on May 13, 2010, at 19:05 | 6 comments

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. Read More »
By halfgaar, 9 years ago, on May 13, 2010, at 18:05 | Comments closed

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: Read More »
By halfgaar, 9 years ago, on December 12, 2009, at 15:12 | 3 comments

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. Read More »
By halfgaar, 10 years ago, on June 21, 2009, at 13:06 | 3 comments