Re: Bugreport - missing check on hotadd

1999-10-16 Thread Jakob Østergaard
On Sat, Oct 16, 1999 at 10:24:31PM -0700, Tom Livingston wrote: > Jakob Østergaard wrote: > > Shouldn't the raidhotadd command check that the supplied disk > > name to be added is actually a valid device in the raidtab file ? > > I'm not so sure... > > I never saw raidhotadd as being an applicat

RE: Bugreport - missing check on hotadd

1999-10-16 Thread Tom Livingston
Jakob Østergaard wrote: > Shouldn't the raidhotadd command check that the supplied disk > name to be added is actually a valid device in the raidtab file ? I'm not so sure... I never saw raidhotadd as being an application that required the drive to already be known. In fact, I always presumed i

Bugreport - missing check on hotadd

1999-10-16 Thread Jakob Østergaard
I just learned (the hard way!) that you can raidhotadd /dev/md0 /dev/whatever By accident I added /dev/hdc instead of /dev/hdc3 to a degraded RAID-1. And it worked ! Well, it worked until the swap-partition on /dev/hdc2 got written to which caused the ext2fs on /dev/md0 (which was then part