On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 01:31:18PM +0200, Nico Kist wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > First of all, thanks for all the great work done on dmraid. You're welcome. > It looks > like a great solution for my problem, I'm just not quite about one > feature. My plan is to use dmraid with my ich7 raid chip for backup > purposes (RAID-1). I want to take a mirrored disk out every week, and > store it up offsite, and put a new (possibly blank) disk in. > > I'm hoping I could use dmraid instead of mdraid because it actually > mirrors the whole disk, not just selected partitions. > > I do have a number of questions however, primarily, does dmraid > support hotswap? Not yet online (i.e. pull drive and a spare one gets used). You got to use the BIOS to replace your drive weekly and dmraid sets the mirror up for resync. > This is rather important to me. Another thing I'm > wondering about is if it's possible to just insert a blank disk into a > degraded array and have it automatically start mirroring the disk? See above. Feature is planned. > > Cheers and thanks in advance for any replies, > > Nico Kist > > _______________________________________________ > Ataraid-list mailing list > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Red Hat GmbH Consulting Development Engineer Am Sonnenhang 11 Storage Development 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@xxxxxxxxxx PHONE +49 171 7803392 FAX +49 2626 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ Ataraid-list mailing list Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list
