Re: [Moosefs-users] "Damaged" disk status?

[Fabien G. <fab...@gm...>]

Hello,

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Stas Oskin <sta...@gm...> wrote:

>
> One of our disks has died, and we had to replace it.
>
> Now I see in MFS CGI the status "damaged" for the disk. Once we bring the
> new disk online, and initialize the chunkserver directory on it, will MFS
> recognize it, clear out any metadata for this disk and start working with it
> normally?
>

Absolutely. But there is no metadata to clean, since this is a new empty
disk : mfsmaster will just add it to its pool.



> Also, about the data placed on disk - does MFS starts replicating it in
> order to keep the goal value, once the disk becomes in damaged state, or/and
> becomes unavailable?
>

A damaged disk is no more used by MooseFS, so the chunks hosted on it are
considered as lost (and will be replicated somewhere else, if the goal asks
for it).


Fabien