On Saturday 11 June 2005 17:29, Michael Tokarev wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 04:13:42PM +0000, Diego M. Vadell wrote: > >>Hi, > >> A new computer arrived at work with 4 160GB SATA disks. I made a > >>couple of RAID 1 (mirror) with two disks each, and then joined them wih > >>LVM. Now I have 320GB in my root volume. > >> > >>My boss asked me to test it, so we all gathered and unplugged the data > >>cable of one of the disks. I was hoping to see linux making warnings for > > > > Hotplug is not supported yet. Don't do that :) > > It isn't hotPLUG -- it's hotUNplug. Happens when drive is dying for > example, or when the cable is flaky, or due to millions of other > reasons... And.. I for one expect linux to react to such a situation > *somehow* - after all, raid is used for this very stuff too, to be > able to continue running a system if one of the drives failed... > > /mjt So I thought... Who's fault is it? Is it something missing from sata_nv or from md? How hard could it be to implement (I dont know a thing, but maybe its just a matter of returning an error somewhere, as I dont want to retry or nothing but informing the md layer that it has to forget about that disk)? Has anybody started to do this? Thanks a lot, -- Diego. - 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
