Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1569 mails)

[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
> On 07/08/2007 07:57 PM, James Knott wrote:
>   
>> One thing I find annoying is that SUSE 10.2 requires a reboot to add a
>> removed drive back on.
>>     
> If you are talking about software raid 1, that is not the case.  I have
> done it without a reboot.  IIRC, I had to tell it the partition was
> failed first before I could readd, but it did work.  In that situation,
> I felt it was not the drive failing but either a cable or controller hiccup.
>
>   
I'm running RAID 5 and if I use mdadm to remove the drive, I can add it
back in again.  However, if I physically remove the drive, even when
removed from the array with mdadm, I have to reboot to get it added back
in again.  There was some discussion about this a few weeks ago.


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