RAID & HDD failure recovery

[Mike McCarty]

David G. Miller wrote:

[snip]

> I think the only data loss was during the period of time from when the 
> drive failed until I was able to pull the ribbon cable.  Unfortunately, 
> the system was still trying to write to the dead drive.

There should have been no data loss. If RAID works correctly, and you
have fewer failures than the array is designed to accept, there should
be no, emphasized no data loss.

[snip]

Mike
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