On Wed Jan 27, 2010 at 03:46:17PM +0100, Michał Sawicz wrote:
> Dnia 2010-01-27, śro o godzinie 09:26 -0500, Carlos Williams pisze:
> > I am building a Linux system which has 4 identical 'fd' partitions on
> > each of the 4 drives. I don't want to use the 4th partition or disk if
> > you would like to call it as a 'hot spare'. I would like to span the
> > entire array over the 4 drives. My question is does my command look
> > correct for doing so?
>
> I'm not sure I understand what you want to achieve. A 'spare' disk is
> one that isn't used until any of the other fail, then the spare replaces
> the failed one. The term 'hot spare' is used to identify a disk that is
> a mirror of one of the other drives, but there's no support for that in
> Linux Software-RAID.
>
A hot spare is one that's plugged in, powered up, and available for use
(a cold spare is sat on a shelf). At least, that's the only way I've
ever heard the terminology used.
Cheers,
Robin
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