-----Mensaje original----- De: Michael Franzino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fecha: dilluns, 18 / octubre / 1999 21:25 Asunto: how to re-introduce a spare? >I'm new to Linux and this discussion group so >please be patient. > >I'm able to make a Software RAID1 system with a >mirrored pair plus one spare using standard >Redhat 6.0 (kernel 2.2.5). The hardware is just a >Pentium Motherboard with one IDE drive and a >string of three SCSI Hard Drives. Each SCSI drive >has only one partition. It is the three >SCSI drives that make up the mirrored pair >plus one spare. I want to use cron to bring-down >one of the drives in the mirrored pair every hour. >The reconstruction will then bring in the spare as >the new half of the mirrored pair. The idea (likely >bad) is that this makes sure I always have a good >filesystem no more than one hour old on the drive that >has been brought down? To make this work I need help >with following questions: > >1) Once a spare has become part of the mirrored > pair (after reconstruction), how do I re-introduce > the third drive back as the new spare? Are there > console commands for this? > >2) Other than powering off a drive in the mirrored > pair (I tried this), how can I bring it down so > that reconstruction starts on the spare? > > >===== > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com >
