[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
>
> 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
>
> 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
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(