Re: Install and RAID
On 28 Jan 2001, Brian May wrote:
> Jason> Here is a big hint for you, Linux doesn't even have an
> Jason> enclosure management driver to go along with the software
> Jason> RAID stuff, making it impossible to use Linux in
> Jason> conjunction with a JBOD enclosure and be able to hot swap
> Jason> drives.
>
> Hot swapping is supported by the Linux RAID code, at least for RAID0,
> RAID4, and RAID5 (why does the man page for raidhotadd not specify
> RAID1? Is this a mistake?).
I know it supports hot swapping, but it does not support SES. Which means
you can't use a standard SCSI JBOD enclosure and have the RAID layer
instruct it to power down a bay so you can hot swap it, let alone any of
the other monitoring functions you can do with SES.
Jason
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