Quoth Louis Mandelstam.....
>
>On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Russell Brown wrote:
>
>> >Reasons TO USE RAID for swap - if the darn swap partition goes bad,
>> 
>> Except that the lower level SCSI drivers* seem to croak when a disk goes
>> bad and lockup the system anyway :-(
>> * - aic7xxx in my case.
>
>I didn't have opportunity to test by actually pulling drives out of the
>SCSI tray yet however, but echoing to appropriate command to
>/proc/scsi/.. had the desired effect of shutting down a disk, causing md
>to rebuild onto a hot spare.   Removing the shut down drive at this point
>works fine, and I can re-add it later, spin it up using echo ... >
>/proc/scsi/... and make it part of the RAID again.

Yes that's a nicely controlled removal - try pulling the power from a
running drive (or in your case pull it out of the tray) and things might
not be quite so clean.

-- 
 Regards,
     Russell
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