[K12OSN] SATA drive for server with 25 users?

[Robert Arkiletian]

On 10/16/06, James P. Kinney III <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:
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> NFS can't handle a drive hiccup error during a read from a mirror drive
> that is failing. It will cause a hard lock of the clients. I'm not done
> on the diagnostics yet to determine if the kernel passed a drive read
> error through the RAID process and into the NFS delivery process but it
> was a disaster no matter how it happened. I'm still considering it as a
> kernel fault (software RAID) as it should have trapped the error, failed
> the drive and then reverted to the other drive.
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>
James are saying software RAID 1 does not work over nfs? This is very
interesting. I would have thought the failed read would have caused the
drive to be kicked out of the array and the other working drive to complete
the read and THEN nfs send the completed successful read.


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