-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/02/07 07:25, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 12:10:33PM +0100, Pim Bliek wrote: > >> On 2/1/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 01:06:54PM -0500, Michael S. Peek wrote: [snip] > I think we're in basic agreement. The only difference that I can see > between our approaches is that I suggested having a spare port on the > hardware raid card to add the new drive before removing a > partially-failed drive. IIRC, normal raid5 can only tolerate one failed > drive. What happens if a second drive fails totally while you're > swapping out a failing one?
That's called having a warm (if *you* have to run the repair commands yourself) or hot (if the controller does it for you) spare. Not common unless you run rack-mounted or have a large pedestal case. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFw0LSS9HxQb37XmcRAncJAKCfrxq8IZoqmrxEK8qGsLiTCXWMQACeNWd2 FvWN1FO3Cku/ejKxXsFWLRQ= =GqEW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
