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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org