I was just reading about how a disk can drop out and the spare gets used but its not marked as failed. So I thought I would check my filer and sure enough I have a volume that has the following:
1 parity drive 6 data drives
RAID group 0
RAID Disk HA.ID HA SHELF BAY CHAN Used (MB/blks) Phys (MB/blks) --------- ----- ------------ ---- -------------- -------------- parity 4.2 4 0 2 FC:A 34500/70656000 35003/71687368 data 4.4 4 0 4 FC:A 34500/70656000 35003/71687368 data 4.1 4 0 1 FC:A 34500/70656000 35003/71687368 data 4.6 4 0 6 FC:A 34500/70656000 35003/71687368 data 4.0 4 0 0 FC:A 34500/70656000 35003/71687368 data 4.3 4 0 3 FC:A 34500/70656000 35003/71687368 data 4.5 4 0 5 FC:A 34500/70656000 35003/71687368
I always have a spare on a filer so I'm not sure if it has been used for a failed disk (I go to our hosting once a week to check all of the machines physically and didn't see any red lights).
How can I tell if I have a failed disk? I do a df of the volume and it shows 6x36gb disks.
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on /vol/vol0/ 190657844 52445200 138212644 28% /vol/vol0/ /vol/vol0/.snapshot 0 3108820 0 ---% /vol/vol0/.snapshot
My other conclusion is I screwed up when I created the volume, if so how can I turn one of the data disks into a spare?
Thanks
art