SoulBlazer wrote: > Can you share 2 or 3 'spare-disks' between multiple raid sets? > > Eg. I have a 22 disk array chopped into multiple 4 disk raid-5 volumes, this > leaves me with 2 disks left over.. Can I assign these two drives as floating > spares incase of failure.. this will obviously be a 'first come first serve' > scenario for raid failure.. but its better then not using them. I'm sure you could script something to that effect based on the current RAID tools and their options/output... If there's nothing like it already included (I haven't checked - and no in-depth knowledge of raid tools either, so forgive any stupid remarks) I could imagine a cron job checking the logs for disk failures and hot-adding the "new" disk (one of the spares, if available). Interesting idea! Marcel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
