[ale] RAID

[George Johnson]

I used to work for MTI.  We had some old SCSI RAID boxes at places
like Cingular.  We had a special utility that we scheduled to run
about once a week during low usage periods as a consistancy check.  It
would correct small errors as they came up and the systems never
needed to come down.  I am not sure if there is anything for LINUX
like that.  I would run fsck on it once a month or something to see if
that corrected it, that is after you get it back up and running.

How many drives are involved?   Maybe one of them is acting up and
needs to be replaced.  I have seen minor problems with drives knock
the whole array off line at times even though just that drive should
come down and leave the rest of the array in degraded mode.

gj


On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 08:48:54 -0400, Brandon Colbert <brandon at geekrus.net> wrote:
> I have redhat's software raid 1 setup on a server. This server ran 200
> days straight. But over the pass month, I have been noticing some
> strange problems: unable to move files, the permissions for /bin/ls
> changed, using more memory, when ever I type df -h, it returns
> *"segmentation fault," *and now  it will not boot up.  Could it be that
> the RAID is corrupted, if so how do I repair it? What is the cause of
> this problem, and how do I fix it?
> 
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