On Saturday April 28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>       Question: can you have one or more spare-disk entries in /etc/raidtab when 
> running a RAID1 set?
> 
>       First answer: the Linux Software-RAID HOWTO says yes, and gives an example 
> of this in the section on RAID1 config in raidtab.
> 
>       Second answer: the manpage for raidtab says no, stating that spare-disk is 
> only valid for RAID4 and RAID5.
> 
>       Hmmmmm......     Which is it....?

You can certainly have spare discs in raid1 arrays.

NeilBrown

> 
>       I'm running Mandrake 8.0, which is a 2.4.3 kernel.  I haven't tried to 
> actually use a spare-disk entry yet, because I'm still waiting for the 
> third disk for my RAID1 set to get here, but I thought I'd ask to see if 
> anybody knows for sure.  If not, I'll experiment with it once my third disk 
> gets here and report back.
> 
>       Thanks!
> 
> - Al
> 
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