[F7] Most reliable RAID level

[Gilboa Davara]

On Sun, 2007-07-01 at 12:12 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
> On Sun, 01 Jul 2007 15:08:24 +0300
> Gilboa Davara <gilboad at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > You'll just need manually remove the old driver from the array and add
> > the new one.
> 
> I have an Intel SS-4000E fileserver.  It is Linux-based, and it does hot drive
> swapping all by itself with no manual-anything required on a drive change.
> 
> I wonder if that functionality could be/should be added to the base kernel, or
> at least Fedora?  It obviously can be done....
> 

At least on the SCSI/SATA controllers that I use, the new disk get
enumerated up-ward (on a 4 disk system, if I remove sdb and insert a new
drive, it'll become sde).
As such, I need to remove sdb from the array and hot-add sde once it is
inserted.

- Gilboa