Re: saving RAIDframe parity accross a panic

[Greg Oster <oster%cs.usask.ca@localhost>]

Edgar =?iso-8859-1?B?RnXf?= writes:
> > So I just go another panic on the file server:
> > 
> > raid1: IO failed after 5 retries
> > raid1: IO failed after 5 retries
> > raid1: IO failed after 5 retries
> > /export/mail: got error 5 while accessing filesystem
> > panic: softdep_deallocate_dependencies: unrecovered I/O error
> 
> I'm just wondering what if that really had been an actual I/O error. Then,
> I would have lost the RAIDframe parity because of the panic, and probably
> not have been able to re-write it because of the I/O error.
> 
> Is there any decent way to save the RAIDframe parity on a panic?

There are plans to make it not have to check as much parity 
after a panic, but right now it has to verify all parity...

Later...

Greg Oster