Re: hot swap in software raid on rh 8

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 01/29/04 

Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 19:28:56 +0100

In alt.os.linux Morgan LaVigne <morgan@_nospam_classroominc.org> wrote:
> Hey,
> I'm working with a server that has a raid 0 setup on it. It's a dell
> that supports a hot-swap scsi drive cage and I'm running tests on the
> raid setup. I can't seem to figure out how to get a drive hot swapped
> in. I've got the software-raid howto in front of me, but the thing is
> that it starts by telling you to unmount your raid drive. This isn't
> really an option since the whole system is one big raid. I'm trying to
> figure out how to add the drive and resync the raid.
> Any thoughts?

Won't work out with RAID0 you are stripping your data,if you lose
one disk, you'll probably lose all data on the RAID array.

Use at least RAID1 or 5, that should enable you to rip off one
disk. 

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Michael Heiming
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