On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
>
> On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 02:11:22PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote:
>
> > soemthing whacky if you have to manually add the disk back in
> > with mdadm ... it thinks its brand new virgin disk ?? vs just needing
> > to have it's new files sync'd to the disk that just came online
>
> Somebody just told me that it is normal that you have to add it
> manually.
>
> Or isn't it ?
for my raid boxes.... resyncing is all automated ... earn'd my fees that
way
no manual recreation of the raid array ...
- sometimes its a pain in the butt to get it working right
so after using mdadm or other re-assemble the raid, one tends
to leave it as is and merrrily proceed till the next failure
- time vs $$$ vs frustration .. sometimes better to let it
go ... make sure at least 2 independent redundant backups of the
raid is working and watch what happens
i assume that you have..
- software raid1
- "FD" as your partition type
- lilo.conf or grub or other pointing to the /dev/mdxx devices
for booting
- raid is built into the kernel .. not a module
- /etc/raidtab setup up right
- which version of raidtools are you using ??
- test regularly and often and randomly from bare metal
c ya
alvin
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