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Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 23:35:18 +1000
From: Eyal Lebedinsky <eyal@eyal.emu.id.au>
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Subject: Re: RAID problems
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jeff millar wrote:
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> Raid needs an automatic way to maintain device synchronization.  Why should
> I have to...
>     manually examine the device data (lsraid)
>     find two devices that match
>     mark the others failed in /etc/raidtab
>     reinitialize the raid devices...putting all data at risk
>     hot add the "failed" device
>     wait for it to recover (hours)

There is no need to wait here, go a head and remount it now if you need
it.

>     change /etc/raidtab again
>     retest everything

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Eyal Lebedinsky (eyal@eyal.emu.id.au) <http://samba.org/eyal/>
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