Failed internal mirrored drive - why didn't server stay up?

From: Cohen, Andy (Andy.Cohen_at_cognex.com)
Date: 08/16/05

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    Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 14:56:06 -0400
To: Tru64 Managers <tru64-unix-managers@ornl.gov>

    Greetings all!
     
    We have a DS20E running Tru64 5.1 pk6. It is configured with two
    internal (system) disks that are mirrored by LSM. Overnight one of
    these two mirrored disks failed. Unfortunately, this brought the system
    down. Isn't the point have having mirrored drives to prevent a
    single-point of failure? i.e., shouldn't the system have kept running
    with just the one good remaining disk? Or am I misunderstanding what
    LSM does?
     
    Thanks!
    Andy

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