Re: does raid1 consider one drive to be 'primary'?

1999-05-29 Thread Carsten Leonhardt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > When I first started playing with the new raid tools/kernel-patch, it was with > kernel 2.2.3, it was possible to do a > > echo "scsi remove-single-device">/proc/scsi/scsi > > on a running raid disk if there was no ordinary partition on the disk which was > mounted a

Re: does raid1 consider one drive to be 'primary'?

1999-05-27 Thread brm
> > What is needed is a "raidhotremove --DOIT!!" to allow you to remove an active > disk ... (people have said this should be possible in the kernel -- but > tricky. Sounds pretty simple to me, but I'm not an expert ...) > > > now that everything lives in the kernel, i dont see how that would be >

Re: does raid1 consider one drive to be 'primary'?

1999-05-21 Thread Piete Brooks
> after purposely trying to corrupt one drive in my raid1 array (for testing > purposes of course), RAID1 does not protect against disk corruption. It protects against disk *FAILURE*. > i setup raid1 array w/ 2 identical 9gig scsi drives, and made an ext2fs on the > array. then i stopped the a

does raid1 consider one drive to be 'primary'?

1999-05-19 Thread James Blanding
hi again... after purposely trying to corrupt one drive in my raid1 array (for testing purposes of course), i discovered something that i find odd. heres how i got there: i setup raid1 array w/ 2 identical 9gig scsi drives, and made an ext2fs on the array. then i stopped the array, and used dd(