> Over the years I've had various problems with the degree to which the > adding of spares on boot is automatic. There have been times when this > has just worked, and other times (such as now) where it only works > very > occasionally (or not at all). Google is full of stories like this. > > I have no clue why it's not working automatically, I just know that it > isn't. > > So I wrote a little script that automates this, and hooked it up to > mdmon as an event handler. > > It can probably do with an elegance upgrade, but it works for me. hm… I don't se the point, really. I have a RAID-6 with a spare, and last time a drive died, the spare kicked in automatically. Why would you add something at boot? -- Vennlige hilsener / Best regards roy -- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk (+47) 98013356 roy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://blogg.karlsbakk.net/ GPG Public key: http://karlsbakk.net/roysigurdkarlsbakk.pubkey.txt -- I all pedagogikk er det essensielt at pensum presenteres intelligibelt. Det er et elementært imperativ for alle pedagoger å unngå eksessiv anvendelse av idiomer med xenotyp etymologi. I de fleste tilfeller eksisterer adekvate og relevante synonymer på norsk. -- 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