Joe Landman wrote: <snip> > For small numbers of drives, yes, the MD driver is superb with two > (well, really three) caveats. > > First: No hot swap. You can do a kind-of-cold swap (have to take the > mount offline, and can execute a few MD raw-disassemble, and then turn > the device off, swap, force Linux to rescan the scsi bus, mark the drive > as a hot spare, and force reassembly ... then remount). This may or may > not work, depending upon the linux driver for the SATA port. Some get > very unhappy if the drive goes away after it found it. Is this primarily a driver issue? Are there any provisions in libata for rectifying it (if it's a software problem only)?
<snip> -- Geoffrey D. Jacobs To have no errors would be life without meaning No struggle, no joy _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
