aaron

Another raid5 scare, and how to recover an apparently trashed array

This morning after waking up to lots of thunder and lightning, I got a text message saying my raid5 array had failed. Only this time, 2 of the 3 drives were missing. Since both of those drives were actually mounted via a vblade share (on a different physical machine), I assumed that the other server had freaked out during a power surge. I quickly rebooted the machine to bring back the vblade shares, but...