On Tuesday March 4, ARechenberg@shermanfinancialgroup.com wrote: > Good day, > > I was wondering if there is any way to assign the same spare disk to > multiple software RAID arrays. With hardware controllers you can assign > a disk as a "global hot spare." When any disk connected to the > controller goes south (no matter which array it is in), the global spare > disk picks up the slack. > > If there is no way to do this with raidtools, could I possibly use mdadm > to monitor for a failure and then hotadd a disk that is not part of any > array? mdadm has explicit support for this. Look for "spare-group" in the man page. NeilBrown > > Thanks for your help. > > Regards, > Andy. > > Andrew Rechenberg > Infrastructure Team, Sherman Financial Group. > arechenberg@shermfin.com > - > 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 - 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
