-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hi folks -- I've been experimenting with RAID, using kernel 2.4 on RH7. It works quite well, but documentation is definitely lacking, so perhaps someone more experienced with Linux RAID could show me a graceful way to restore a member of a RAID-1 array? I simulated a failure by removing power to one of the two 45G IDE disks in the array, and the system kept a'pluggin' very nicely. I then wiped the "failed" disk and tried to re-sync it, and there went my evening. What I've read suggests that I should be able to simply plug in a blank disk at the same device location, and the kernel should figure out what's happening and resync, but that didn't happen. When the blank disk didn't work, I tried re-creating the original partition structure on it. Tried adding it both with and without a filesystem created on it. Errors ranged from silently ignoring the disk, to complaints about a bad superblock. When I was able to start md0 and mount it at all, /proc/mdstat consistently only showed one device -- the one which still contained data. Worst of all, the documentation I found online frequently referred to commands or flags which are now deprecated and didn't work. I finally made it work by replacing the entry for the failed device with /dev/null in /etc/raidtab, entering a new device as a spare, then using 'raidhotadd' to load the spare. Is there a smarter way? Thank you kindly -d - -- David Talkington Prairienet [EMAIL PROTECTED] 217-244-1962 PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/dt000823.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQEVAwUBOmUob71ZYOtSwT+tAQGe5Af9FESm6w9b5uzGXoBXho5OhF1mbChmjqph reLGQsZapSX3WxoucpIlX9I2CvTrbP4BYU0HVh/Aod/ObAb3ZQFcwkA0mNBZyPDP OlHtMfTiX4YAFxzwWsBM2cb+UefQL6A2G/q6BuDPQtl8qczt/QH9RIAEDMJew2b7 GcrC5Z4e/GsLtvJiHzSRO2FdMpEBlqQCzFjK3mD09gr8OEzT52r1uNC9FdH9KOG6 Ag4D8RHgKfgkoA0uvyNy/pWBOqVYIJJm/N1l4G53g7oIXiUuB5ooZR4X6czK6zvv Wo+2OnBVCiC199m4Ilf5eYZJL2lqo9UCI2hTSLaEnnqq/hvhpuqLRw== =6BHX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
