Re: Why did the 7133 raid5 array switch to "degraded state" ?

From: Robert Clark (res03db2@GTE.NET)
Date: Thu May 06 2004 - 21:53:37 EDT


cuihh cuihh wrote:

> 7133-D40, i have make an raid5 arrary hdisk3 which is composed of 3
> pdisks
> and not allocate any hotspares to the raid5.
> Then i make a VG on hdisk3 and create a filesystem /7133fs on the VG.
> Later i do an experiment like following :
> I unplug the one of the 3 pdisks and soon the raid5 array became to
> exposed
> state.
> What i felt strange was after i list the content of any file in the
> /7133fs
> using "cat filename"
> , I can found that the raid5 array became to "degraded state". Why ?
> I only know that if the raid5 array was in "exposed" state and i write
> something to the /7133fs then the array can switch to "degraded
> state", but
> not reading the files can cause the "degraded state".
>
> Any one have the same experiences ?
> Thank in advance .
>
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Maybe the system was trying to update the file's last accessed date.
[RC]



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