On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 09:56:40AM +0400, Brad Campbell wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > >it out and insert the new drive in the array. The array starts > > >rebuilding - no effect on the uptime and only a slight loss in > > >throughput. Plus it's seamless. > > > >Yeah, md+mdadm can do all this right now, provided the hardware and > >driver support is there... > > > > Yes, my point however is for low budget stuff with software raid the driver > support is not yet there in a vanilla kernel. > I can't just whack a sata drive off one of my promise SATA150-TX4 > controllers, pop another one in and have the kernel rescan the partition > table and realise a new drive was present. (YET!) I'm sort of confused... which are the combinations that allow me to hotswap a disk w/ software raid. I don't mind doing some mdadm operations, I'm just interested in how I can avoid rebooting. I thought I couldn't, now I learn you can "provided the hardware and driver support is there"... can you detail a little more? thanks sandro *:-) -- Sandro Dentella *:-) e-mail: sandro.dentella@tin.it http://www.tksql.org TkSQL Home page - My GPL work - 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
