On 02/28/2009 03:14 AM, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:On 02/27/2009 07:50 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 05:58:43PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:As would auto-replacement of bad drives by hot spares.Usually the firmware of a raid card does that itself. If a drive is flagged hotspare, the raid card should automatically start the rebuild if a drive fails. You should never have to tell it to do that. If you had to tell it then it hardly qualifies as a hot spare.I was referring to the fact that softraid couldn't do that.Hot-spare devices work just fine (see below). What doesn't exists afaik are global hot spares. E.g. 7 disks, two 3 disk raid5 and one spare disk for whatever raid fails first. You would have to script that yourself.
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