On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Lawrence Dickson wrote:
So I take it the 18 disk RAID has to be unmounted before I
can do this. That's a killer.
eek, i was tired.. i didn't mean to say raidstop - sorry. The array
doesn't need to be stopped if it's a fault tolerant array. So should
be:
The *disk to be swapped* must be *taken out of the array* - ie
raidhotremove. Then raidhotadd the new disk in.
We have proper hot-swap hardware but that does not help when
the scsi driver forces us into uninterruptible sleep.
Some drivers are better than others at handling errors. But the linux
scsi layer holds a lot back. I think it's due a revamp for 2.5.
Thanks,
Larry
regards,
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