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Re: Replacing failed drive in software RAID



On 11/1/2013 9:19 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Stan Hoeppner a écrit :
>>
>> This is precisely why I use hardware RAID HBAs for boot disks (and most
>> often for data disks as well).  The HBA's BIOS makes booting transparent
>> after drive failure.  In addition you only have one array (hardware)
>> instead of 3 (mdraid).
> 
> MD RAID arrays can be partitionned, or contain multiple LVM logical
> volumes. So you don't have to create multiple arrays, unless they are of
> different types (e.g. RAID 1 and RAID 10 as in this thread).

Yes, I'm well aware of md's capabilities.  I was speaking directly to
the OP's situation.

-- 
Stan


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