> On Thursday November 13, michael@insulin-pumpers.org wrote: > > I've been messing with a new raid 1 system with hot swap bays and it > > occurred to me that in a raid/boot situation, the spare drive is not > > sync'd and has no boot track. Is there a way to force the spare drive > > to sync to the "master" set so that lilo can be run on that drive to > > place a boot track with the appropriate information... or is there a > > way to hold the spare in sync. This need not be done for the entire > > disk, only the raid 1 boot partition. I can't see an easy way to do > > this with the current tools, it might be a nice option to add to > > future I'mplimentations. > > If you want the spare to be in-sync with the rest of the array, then > it is not a spare, it is full member. > > i.e. instead of making a RAID1 array with 2 drives and one space, > make it with three drives and no spare. > > NeilBrown > Can you really make a 3 partition raid 1 with no spare???? And all 3 partitions will remain in sync??? I haven't dug into the kernel code, but somehow that doesn't seem logical..... but wadda I know??? Michael Michael@Insulin-Pumpers.org - 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
