Re: hot-add unformatted drive to RAID array automagically

[Wouter Verhelst <wouter@nixsys.be>]

Op wo, 02-02-2005 te 19:56 +0200, schreef Alexandros Papadopoulos:
> When a disk fails, one has to be able to just pull it out of the running 
> box (hot swap). In the meantime, the array will be rebuilding with the 
> hot-standby disk, so in a couple of hours there will be a functional 
> RAID-1 array again, but with no standby disk.
> 
> After buying a new (unformatted) disk, the maintainance person will then 
> just have to plug the new disk in the box, at which point it will be 
> recognized and added (as a hot standby) to the array.

So, what you want is hardware RAID. Not just because it does that, also
because it's (usually) quite a bit faster.

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