On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote: > On 2003-10-06T16:27:59, > Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net> said: > > > is it possible to use the single drive as hot-failover for both md0 and > > md1? > > In theory yes, in practice not. > > One could imagine (rather easily) a global hot-spare pool for all mds, > but it's not implemented right now. > Not sure about this but I thought this would be possible by using mdadm in monitor mode? In the manpage of mdadm it says: As well as reporting events, mdadm may move a spare drive from one array to another if they are in the same spare-group and if the desti- nation array has a failed drive but not spares. But I don't know how to create a spare-groupi or what is meant by it? Regards, Holger - 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
