RaidHotAdd and reconstruction

2001-03-04 Thread Jos Visser
Hi folks, I have a two-disk RAID 1 test array that I was playing with. I then decided to hot add a third disk using ``raidhotadd''. The disk was added to the array, but as far as I could see, the RAID software did not start a reconstruction of that newly added disk. A skimmed through the driver

Re: RaidHotAdd and reconstruction

2001-03-04 Thread Neil Brown
On Sunday March 4, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, I have a two-disk RAID 1 test array that I was playing with. I then decided to hot add a third disk using ``raidhotadd''. The disk was added to the array, but as far as I could see, the RAID software did not start a reconstruction of

Re: RaidHotAdd and reconstruction

2001-03-04 Thread josv
Thanks for the answer. I hadn't realized that the hot added drive would become a hot spare. I had figured out that reconstruction probably takes the first RAID drive as the source for updating the other drives, so that a ``mkraid --really-force'' would really do the trick. However, this would