Well, the simplest thing would be to detach one of the mirror disks, keep it as the backup, then insert a new one for the resync. Is that what you want? Andy -----Original Message----- From: Mircea Ciocan [mailto:mirceac@interplus.ro] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 10:34 AM To: Cress, Andrew R Cc: Catalin BOIE; linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Please help with a special RAID 1 setup Cress, Andrew R wrote: >Note that RAID-1 will only ever have a maximum of 2 active disks. >When you add the 3rd disk, it is added to the array as a spare, that's >why it doesn't rebuild. > >Andy > > Ouch, so is there really no posibility to obtain somehow what I explained in the previous mail ( a cvasi-realtime filesystem backup by attaching and detaching a device) :((( Please tell me that there is a posibility, my world is shattered ;) Mircea - 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
