I'm playing this weekend with v2.2.6 & the new patches on a spare server
trying to get
boot-raid working or to see how far off it is.
Anyway, I noticed that the current code doesn't seems to allow a 'global hot
spare' disk
for the raid arrays. On my test system here I have 3 arrays (raid 1 & raid
5) and instead
of keeping one hot standby disk for each array I'd like to keep one disk
(obviously large
enough to accomidate any of the arrays) as a hot spare to be used in any
array that needs
it.
This brings up another question, partitioning. The above (I don't think)
would work currently
anyway due to the disks having to be partitioned out first (correct?). How
hard would it be
to have the raid code itself write the required partition information and
whatever it requires
to get a raw disk (which was marked as a hot spare) up and running?
Steve
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