From: Brad Campbell <brad@wasp.net.au>
To: Sandro Dentella <sandro.dentella@tin.it>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Which raid card to buy for Sarge
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 12:03:12 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <406BCCC0.8070104@wasp.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040401074921.GA27234@bluff>
Sandro Dentella wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 09:56:40AM +0400, Brad Campbell wrote:
>
>>Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>it out and insert the new drive in the array. The array starts
>>>>rebuilding - no effect on the uptime and only a slight loss in
>>>>throughput. Plus it's seamless.
>>>
>>>Yeah, md+mdadm can do all this right now, provided the hardware and
>>>driver support is there...
>>>
>>
>>Yes, my point however is for low budget stuff with software raid the driver
>>support is not yet there in a vanilla kernel.
>>I can't just whack a sata drive off one of my promise SATA150-TX4
>>controllers, pop another one in and have the kernel rescan the partition
>>table and realise a new drive was present. (YET!)
>
>
> I'm sort of confused... which are the combinations that allow me to hotswap a
> disk w/ software raid. I don't mind doing some mdadm operations, I'm just
> interested in how I can avoid rebooting.
>
> I thought I couldn't, now I learn you can "provided the hardware and driver
> support is there"... can you detail a little more?
Yup. Currently, SCSI has the hardware and driver support.
SATA has the hardware support, but not the driver support (Yet).
Regards,
Brad
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-01 8:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-31 15:47 Which raid card to buy for Sarge me
2004-03-31 16:15 ` Luca Berra
2004-03-31 16:43 ` me
2004-03-31 16:58 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-03-31 18:03 ` Ralph Paßgang
2004-03-31 19:50 ` Mark Hahn
2004-03-31 20:19 ` Richard Scobie
2004-04-01 9:07 ` KELEMEN Peter
2004-04-04 4:47 ` Richard Scobie
2004-04-09 11:16 ` KELEMEN Peter
2004-04-09 13:07 ` Which raid card to buy for SargeD Yu Chen
2004-04-09 21:52 ` KELEMEN Peter
2004-03-31 20:42 ` Which raid card to buy for Sarge Ralph Paßgang
2004-03-31 20:59 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-31 21:39 ` Guy
2004-04-01 4:49 ` Brad Campbell
2004-04-01 4:51 ` seth vidal
2004-04-01 5:01 ` Brad Campbell
2004-04-01 5:39 ` Guy
2004-04-01 5:51 ` Brad Campbell
2004-04-01 5:29 ` Guy
2004-04-01 5:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-04-01 5:44 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-04-01 5:56 ` Brad Campbell
2004-04-01 7:49 ` Sandro Dentella
2004-04-01 8:03 ` Brad Campbell [this message]
2004-04-01 8:07 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-04-16 14:25 ` Nick Maynard
2004-04-16 15:09 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-04-16 16:29 ` Nick Maynard
2004-04-16 17:44 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-04-16 22:34 ` jlewis
2004-04-01 4:24 ` me
2004-04-01 4:57 ` Clemens Schwaighofer
2004-04-01 5:34 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-04-01 6:39 ` Clemens Schwaighofer
2004-04-01 5:58 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-04-01 12:52 ` me
2004-04-01 19:31 ` Terrence Martin
2004-04-02 4:46 ` me
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