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 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > | voice: 503.247.9256 > Lots of folks confuse bad management | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with destiny. | cell: 503.709.0028 > | email to my cell: > - Kin Hubbard | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
