[j-nsp] M series RE failover * subject change

[Tony Frank]

Hi,

On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 07:21:13PM +0700, Le Hai Dang wrote:
> Let's say internal flash is available; if HDD in active RE fails, will
> M box try to make an automatic switchover to the standby RE without
> any external intervention ?
> 

In my recent experience a chassis alarm was raised on active RE when the
HDD failed (console showed disk read/write errors) but no other change.
Ie keeps running on the active RE.

Active RE (with failed disk) continued to run for a while (~5 hours in my case)
Eventually it appeared to get stuck on something (maybe trying to write
a log file to the dead HDD) and the backup RE took over after no keep-alives.

This was with a 6.4-ish Junos running at the time.

Not sure if that is expected behaviour as I never did get around to reading
the doco that covers this area.

Regards,

Tony