From owner-freebsd-fs Sat Nov 6 9:16:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from zed.ludd.luth.se (zed.ludd.luth.se [130.240.16.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D237314C92 for ; Sat, 6 Nov 1999 09:16:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pantzer@speedy.ludd.luth.se) Received: from speedy.ludd.luth.se (pantzer@speedy.ludd.luth.se [130.240.16.164]) by zed.ludd.luth.se (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA20783; Sat, 6 Nov 1999 18:16:49 +0100 Message-Id: <199911061716.SAA20783@zed.ludd.luth.se> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: Bernd Walter Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RAID-5 and failure In-Reply-To: Message from Bernd Walter of "Sat, 06 Nov 1999 17:34:34 +0100." <19991106173434.A9143@cicely7.cicely.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 06 Nov 1999 18:16:47 +0100 From: Mattias Pantzare Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > On Sat, Nov 06, 1999 at 04:58:55PM +0100, Mattias Pantzare wrote: > > What hapens if the data part of a write to a RAID-5 plex completes but not the > > parity part (or the other way)? > > > The parity is not in sync - what else? The system could detect it and recalculate the parity. Or give a warning to the user so the user knows that the data is not safe. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message