Bad Secondary can lock up a box ?

[Daryl Tester]

Andrew Mason wrote:

> I've never really had a stable Linux box lock up before. I know this is 
> hardware related but i was still somwhat surprised it didn't just ignore the 
> defective disk. 

If the faulty secondary "puts crap" (technical term) across the shared cable
then yes it will affect the primary.  I came across this recently on a server;
the secondary died, then the primary went shortly after it.  Pulling the
secondary revived the primary, which appeared to be good all along.



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