Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1569 mails)

["Joe Morris (NTM)" <Joe_Morris@xxxxxxx>]

On 07/08/2007 09:06 PM, James Knott wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>   
OK, now I understand.  That doesn't really have anything to do with raid
in general, but more to do with hot pluggable disks and kernel support
for them.

-- 
Joe Morris
Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.2 x86_64





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