Hi Anthony, with kind help by Intel we're making progress in this area, but we don't have a hard schedule for a release yet. Functionality will support rebuilding on Intel Software RAID initially. Rebuild support for other metadata formats will follow. Regards, Heinz On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 04:35:15PM +1030, Anthony Symons wrote: > Hi List, > > Ive seen in the archives that as of august 2007 dmraid lacks the ability > to rebuild a drive, and still seems to. > > We have the situation that we have several new systems that will live in > a hosting room a very long way away. They have intel sata raid disks, > and we are running RHEL 5. > > dmraid seems to be a tidier implementation than regular linux software > raid due to the mirror existing at boot time, and grub only needing to > be configured once, as well as only requiring one disk of a mirror and > not in any particular slot to boot. > > Is it possible to get an update on how the rebuild process development > is going? We need to decide if we should ship with dmraid and hope it > has the ability to rebuild a disk before 2 of them fail, or if we should > look at other solutions. > > Thanks, > Anthony > > > _______________________________________________ > Ataraid-list mailing list > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 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
