On 07/08/2007 10:27 AM, Brandon Carl wrote:
> Incorrect, with RAID 1, you have two partitions, or complete drives in
> my case, that are exactly the same, both written to at the same time
> with the same data.
> If one drive fails, the other drive is there until you replace the
> hosed drive and rebuild the array by copying the data to the replacement.
Almost correct.  At least with Linux software RAID, and I am pretty sure
with any RAID, once you replace the disk it automatically syncs the
other disk, no need to copy or format.  You do need to partition it
correctly size wise and type.

-- 
Joe Morris
Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.2 x86_64





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