Re: "big" machines running Debian?
- To: Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>
- Cc: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>, debian-amd64@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: "big" machines running Debian?
- From: lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)
- Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 10:02:32 -0500
- Message-id: <20090302150232.GZ23244@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
- In-reply-to: <873ady2aag.fsf@frosties.localdomain>
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On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 10:14:15AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> 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.
Any idea what the "spare groups" mentioned in the mdadm documentation are?
I would have guessed it was something to do the global spare thing.
--
Len Sorensen
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