In article <11102.1267360...@jade.coe.psu.ac.th>, Robert Elz <k...@munnari.oz.au> wrote: >Is there any way to (more simply than running commands >after each boot) have a raidframe (raid1 or raid5) set >be bother uatoconfiguring, and have hot spares? > >I can add the spare easily ... raidctl -a /dev/wdxP raidN >(and the partition used is of type RAID in the disklabel of wdx) > >but after a reboot, it is gone again. I assume this is >related to ... > > -a component dev > Add component as a hot spare for the device dev. Component > labels (which identify the location of a given component within a > particular RAID set) are automatically added to the hot spare > after it has been used and are not required for component before > it is used. > >which suggests that nothing happens to the spare when it is added. >That makes it kind of difficult for the raid autoconfigure code >to find it, I would guess. > >Is there some way to get a component label added, marking the spare >as belonging to this raidset, and being a spare?
No, there isn't. I asked Greg a couple of years ago. It would be a nice thing to add. christos
