Re: Bug with RAID1 hot spares?

2006-10-24 Thread Bill Davidsen
Chase Venters wrote: Greetings, I was just testing a server I was about to send into production on kernel 2.6.18.1. The server has three SCSI disks with md1 set to a RAID1 with 2 mirrors and 1 spare. I have to ask, why? If the array is mostly written you might save a bit of bus time, but

Re: Bug with RAID1 hot spares?

2006-10-24 Thread Chase Venters
On Tuesday 24 October 2006 20:41, Bill Davidsen wrote: Chase Venters wrote: Greetings, I was just testing a server I was about to send into production on kernel 2.6.18.1. The server has three SCSI disks with md1 set to a RAID1 with 2 mirrors and 1 spare. I have to ask, why? If the

Re: Bug with RAID1 hot spares?

2006-10-22 Thread Neil Brown
On Friday October 20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, I was just testing a server I was about to send into production on kernel 2.6.18.1. The server has three SCSI disks with md1 set to a RAID1 with 2 mirrors and 1 spare. The mirrors are sda3 and sdb3, spare is sdc3. I manually