On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 04:14:52PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 02:44:04PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > In mdadm.conf? I'm really surprised (and pleased)! > > Probably in the monitoring mode. man mdadm talks about spare drives and > spare groups and moving spares between raids and such. Sounds pretty > likely to automatically use a spare assigned to an md raid though.
I one (yesterday, to be precise) used mdadm to tell my RAID that one of its drives had failed, and it immediately started copying the other active member to the spare. -- hendrik > > -- > Len Sorensen > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

