On 07/08/2007 09:06 PM, James Knott wrote: > Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: > >> On 07/08/2007 07:57 PM, James Knott wrote: >> >> >>> One thing I find annoying is that SUSE 10.2 requires a reboot to add a >>> removed drive back on. >>> >>> >> If you are talking about software raid 1, that is not the case. I have >> done it without a reboot. IIRC, I had to tell it the partition was >> failed first before I could readd, but it did work. In that situation, >> I felt it was not the drive failing but either a cable or controller hiccup. >> >> >> > I'm running RAID 5 and if I use mdadm to remove the drive, I can add it > back in again. However, if I physically remove the drive, even when > removed from the array with mdadm, I have to reboot to get it added back > in again. There was some discussion about this a few weeks ago. > > > OK, now I understand. That doesn't really have anything to do with raid in general, but more to do with hot pluggable disks and kernel support for them.
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