[CentOS] Re: software raid

Jeff Lasman spake the following on 4/3/2007 7:40 AM:

On Tuesday 03 April 2007 05:58 am, Les Mikesell wrote:

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Yes, but there is still the issue of whether the drive will be recognized at all when hotplugged. Once the drive is assigned a device name by the kernel you will be able to fdisk it. You don't need to mount it because the md device will be mounted, not the disk partitions.

Thanks, Les.

I see where I'm going to have to try this some day soon. All our systems with hotswap bays are in service; I'll try the experiment on the next one.

Jeff

It seems unusual to have hotswap cages and not have a hotswap capable controller. I think SAS is hot-swappable, but I really don't think IDE or SATA is, and SCSI might be if it is newer.