Hervé Eychenne wrote: >>And those who do can type: >> fdisk -l /dev/sda | grep -i fd | cut -f1 -d' ' | xargs -n1 mdadm -r > > > I really don't like kludgy things like that... [...] > Isn't the insertion/removal of a disk common enough to justify the > addition of a simple and clean mdadm option? have you thought about the idea that there is a certain clue behind the actual behaviour of the mdadm tool? is it so annoying to you to mark a disk/partition as faulty before removing it? do you think it makes sense to implement every single case in an extra command line option? did you ever thought about switching to a hardware where you can remove and add disks without having to do anything else than pull the old one out and push teh new one in? i run several raid arrays on many machines and i find the tools quite useful. if you mind such command lines like the one above you should think about switching to a microsoft product where you can push your mouse arround and tell everyone that you can do what you want without those kludgy command lines which no one really understands. so please ask and learn. there are many people on this list which are pleased to answer your questions. the idea behind *n?x systems is to combine simple functionality through pipes and redirects to gain unlimited complexy and power. so if you want to use the full power of *n?x systems you have to get used to this "kludgy" command lines. the more you get used to it, the less "kludgy" they will be. SCNR - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
