On Sun, 2007-12-02 at 14:29 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: > > What would happen if one of the RAID arrays failed (e.g. two drives die > > in RAID 5 array 1)? Would the data be safe, would I lose all data, or > > would I just lose the data that was on the failed array? > > Two drives in either RAID will most likely kill your LVM. Guess the friend was right, although I had a feeling he would be. Well, there isn't much data on the arrays yet, so I think I might just rebuild it as one big RAID 5 instead. > It's a matter of blind luck, but any LV that sits on the dead RAID5 > array will be taken with it. Ok. I need to mount all the storage on one file system, so having two arrays won't work (I want to mount everything on /srv). Thanks to everyone for the input! Regards, Ranbir -- Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu Linux 2.6.22.9-61.fc6 i686 GNU/Linux 22:39:02 up 16 days, 21:11, 1 user, load average: 0.77, 0.58, 0.53
