Followup to: <16323.732.390200.935640@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au> By author: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> In newsgroup: linux.dev.raid > > What you should have done is make a raid1 with 2 drives, one of which > was missing/failed. With mdadm, the command would be: > > mdadm -C /dev/md0 --level=raid1 --disks=2 /dev/hda3 missing > > then you can hot-add the extra drive when it arrives. > > What you have to do now is recreate the raid1 with two drives. You > will have to have the filesystem unmounted and the raid stopped, but > you will not lose any data. > For the case of RAID-1 in particular, it would be nice to be able to hotadd drives "ad infinitum"... after all they're all the same. -hpa -- <hpa@transmeta.com> at work, <hpa@zytor.com> in private! If you send me mail in HTML format I will assume it's spam. "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." Architectures needed: ia64 m68k mips64 ppc ppc64 s390 s390x sh v850 x86-64 - 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
