[nycbug-talk] RAID controllers - what doesn't suck?

Charles Sprickman spork
Mon Sep 13 19:14:47 EDT 2004


On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Dan Langille wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Charles Sprickman wrote:
>
>> For minimal management tasks without going into "SMOR", I use the raidutil
>> client, which is supplied by Adaptec.   It's one application that I wish
>> had the MS-like "Are you sure (y/n)?" prompt when you do something stupid
>> like typo "rebuild" when you mean "build". :)
>
> What was the outcome of that?

A not-so-gentle introduction to fsck, vnconfig and panics on dirty 
filesystems. :)

I got most of it back, but it was not simple.  There's still stuff on 
there but fsck has some "interesting" limitations on how many files will 
fit in lost+found.  I filed a pr on that one; if I knew a bit more C I 
could fix it.  Right now I have a custom fsck that rather than blindly 
deleting things when lost+found has filled, it exits and then I manually 
move stuff out of lost+found, then rinse + repeat.  Very time-consuming.

Charles

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