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  • Another raid5 scare, and how to recover an apparently trashed array

    This morning after waking up to lots of thunder and lightning, I got a text message saying my raid5 array had failed. Only this time, 2 of the 3 drives were missing. Since both of those drives were actually mounted via a vblade share (on a different physical machine), I assumed that the other server had freaked out during a power surge. I quickly rebooted the machine to bring back the vblade shares, but then the trouble started.
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    Mon, Aug 18, 2008 10:52am -07:00 #mdadm #raid #raid5
  • 2/4 failed drives in a raid5 array??

    Apparently raid arrays don't like it when you kill power to the machine. We've been doing remodeling in the house, and I've been turning on and off breakers. Apparently I forgot which breaker the servers were on, and turned it off accidentally a few times.
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    Sat, Dec 30, 2006 10:56pm -08:00 #harddrives #raid5
  • Failed disk when creating RAID5 array

    I spent about an hour bashing my head against a wall with this one.
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    Tue, Oct 17, 2006 8:14pm -07:00 #harddrives #raid5
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Hi, I'm Aaron Parecki, Director of Identity Standards at Okta, and co-founder of IndieWebCamp. I maintain oauth.net, write and consult about OAuth, and participate in the OAuth Working Group at the IETF. I also help people learn about video production and livestreaming. (detailed bio)

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