On 15.09.2006, at 15:59, PF wrote: > > a) TSL still uses EVMS right? yes, but with editing initrd/fstab it will access partitions directly after reboot ;) > > b) Only available levels are 0,1,5 and 1+0 or other levels that > might be > able to sustain 2 failed drives are not available? whatever is compiled in the kernel, but I never tried kernel raid6 patches myself. > > c) Do you include swap partition in arrays? no, if you have a look at the documentation around swap, if there is more then one swap partition, the kernel will "round-robin" them anyways. so why? > > d) Is hot swap possible? How about hot spare? depending on the hardware, do you have a drive controller that will recognize a drive if there hasn't been on on boot? some SATA / IDE chipsets do that if you rmmod/insmod the driver, but this only works for the complete controller, not for individual ports. > > e) Are scripts readily available to report health/failure events? > man mdadm on your command line.
hope that answers all your questions. matthias _______________________________________________ tsl-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.trustix.org/mailman/listinfo/tsl-discuss
