Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 10:14:15AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Hot-spare devices work just fine (see below). >> >> What doesn't exists afaik are global hot spares. E.g. 7 disks, two 3 >> disk raid5 and one spare disk for whatever raid fails first. You would >> have to script that yourself. > > Any idea what the "spare groups" mentioned in the mdadm documentation are? > > I would have guessed it was something to do the global spare thing. >
I haven't tested shared hot spares myself but this article (among quite a few other hits from google: shared hot spare) indicates that it is quite possible with mdadm running in daemon mode: http://www.redhat.com/magazine/021jul06/departments/tips_tricks/ ...and it appears Len was completely right about the spare-group keyword. Cheers, Jonas -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
