On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Tom Oehser wrote:

> Does anyone have a recommendation for IDE hotswap bays?
>
> What about getting the kernel to recognize the swaps?

We are using Kensington's StoreCase bays for the drives, and the Linux
md raid modules to handle the mirror set administration.  We haven't
automated anything yet -- all the critical volumes are mirrored, and we
intend to tell the md module to break the mirrorset, power down one of
the drives, pull it out and replace it with a blank one, then restore
the mirrorset (we currently use this technique to clone the system disk
when we bring up a new server, and it works well for that.  We already
have a tape rotation for backups, but it's getting more expensive every
day.)

Steve Brown
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