On Sunday 01 April 2007 11:37 am, Les Mikesell wrote:
> The question is whether the kernel will notice the new drive when you
> add it. It might be possible to swap in an exact match and get away
> with the setup detected at boot time but that doesn't sound very
> healthy. Can you hotswap a new SATA drive that wasn't present at
> boot time and have the kernel notice the new drive device and its
> partitions.
Thinking more about this ...
I most likely wouldn't have a drive "ready" as all our servers don't
have the same configuration.
> If the partitions are recognized, mdadm will be able to
> add them.
Could I create partitions on a new drive (fdisk) and then do either a
mount or remount? And then start rebuilding the RAID?
Jeff
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