Re: Hot adding active disk to RAID1?

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Thus spake Neil Brown (neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au):

> On Tuesday February 10, mikepery@fscked.org wrote:
> > 
> > I concur. The manpages really should clear up that raidhotadd (and mdadm
> > -a) only add spares. And they should further clarify that spares are
> > essentially useless and lie dormant.. The names of these
> > commands/options are very deceptive to the new user...
> 
> Patches are more that welcome.

Is there a preferred version/cvs repository that I should diff against? The
raidtools are kinda helter-skelter in their net presence, it seems..

> It is very hard for someone how knows the system "inside-out" to see
> which areas aren't explained well.

Heh, ok. I'll put it on the TODO pile.

-- 
Mike Perry
Mad Computer Scientist
fscked.org evil labs
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