Thus spake Neil Brown (neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au): > > Is there a preferred version/cvs repository that I should diff against? The > > raidtools are kinda helter-skelter in their net presence, it seems.. > > Sorry, I should have been more specific. > Patches *against mdadm* are welcome. > I have no interest in "raid-tools" - it seems to be unmaintained. > Patches against the lastest source tar-ball are fine. Attached. Any plans to port that raidreconf tool into mdadm? Cause for now, the new manpage refers people to the deprecated raidtools. -- Mike Perry Mad Computer Scientist fscked.org evil labs
--- mdadm.8.old Tue Feb 10 19:19:00 2004 +++ mdadm.8 Tue Feb 10 19:44:18 2004 @@ -363,7 +363,16 @@ .TP .BR -a ", " --add '''add, or -hotadd listed devices. +hotadd listed devices as spare disks. + +To add active disks to an array, you will need to recreate the array. If it is +RAID1, you can often get away with recreating the array using the same +devices, plus one more, without destroying data (creating a RAID1 device only +overwrites the superblock). Note that backing up the array to a regular file +system on your new disk first is strongly recommended, but if all goes well, +you should not have to recopy any more data. For RAID0 and RAID5, adding +active disks will require a raid-tools 1.0 utility called raidreconf. Please +be aware that there are risks involved with these tools, and plan accordingly. .TP .BR -r ", " --remove
