Re: Software RAID-5

[sopwith redhat com (Elliot Lee)]

On 1 Sep 1999 16:10:10 -0400, Dale Anderson <danderso crystalsugar com> wrote:

> I have a RedHat v6.0 box with 3 disks as a raid 5 array.  As a test, i failed one of
> the drives, and the array went into degraded mode.  I have replaced the drive and
> rebooted.  How do I get the RAID software to reconstruct the array using the new third
> drive ??

It should already be doing that automatically. You can view the status of
reconstruction in /proc/mdstat

If you are hot-swapping drives, you will need to use the 'raidhotremove'
and 'raidhotadd' commands to kick the RAID subsystem into doing the right
thing, but because you rebooted, it automatically figured this stuff out
at startup.

-- Elliot
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