Re: Handling errors in software RAID

[James Manning]

[ Monday, January 31, 2000 ] Anthony Di Paola wrote:
>  - How to identify when a disk in a raid array fails.

/proc/mdstat will have the entry change from U (up) to _ (down)

>  - Does software raid support hot-swap disks

raidhot{add,remove}

You may need to deal with lower-level layers (like /proc/scsi/scsi
for instance) to get the drive recognized by your driver/kernel
then fdisk/etc to get a partition created/recognized at which point
you should be all set

James