Re: Replacing failed drive in software RAID

[Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org>]

Stan Hoeppner a écrit :
> 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.

So was I. In the OP's situation, there are arrays of different types (1
and 10) so you cannot have one array even with hardware RAID.