On 5/21/05, Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > You need to "reinsert" it manually. It's very well explained
> > in this Howto:
> > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html
> > See the section 6.3 to know how to add the new drive to the array.
> >
> > I tested this 3 days ago :)
>
> There has to be a better way than adding manually.
> We ran RAID1 on 2.2 kernels for years, and anybody, could replace a
> drive
> And it would be added automagically...
>
> Maybe adding "auto" to mdadm.conf and better describing the devices.
How is the system supposed to know that a once-broken drive is now
not broken? You can have other failures beside disconnecting. Or
which, if any, of your running partitions should overwrite the data on
a freshly added disk that might already contain needed data? You can
pre-configure spare devices if you want them to automatically replace
failed ones but otherwise the system shouldn't do potentially destructive
changes by itself.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
