software raided linux box keeps hanging

[bscott at ntisys.com]

On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, at 6:19pm, keyser_soze at bad-one.com wrote:
> My raid setup used to work fine, but just recently the system started
> hanging.

  What did you change?  :-)

> Is this a legal setup?

  It should be, as far as I can see.

> During boot up, there is a warning that there are no spare disks.  But
> that shouldn't be the cause to the problem, right?

  Right.  That warning just means that, if a disk does fail, it cannot 
auto-rebuild onto a spare.

> Is it illegal to just raid partitions such this setup ...

  Not at all.  We've got several customers who have configurations similar
to yours (except every partition is mirrored, not just the one).  Been
running fine for (knock on wood) years now.

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Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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