From: John Robinson <john.robinson@anonymous.org.uk>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>,
"Labun, Marcin" <Marcin.Labun@intel.com>,
Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>,
"Hawrylewicz Czarnowski,
Przemyslaw" <przemyslaw.hawrylewicz.czarnowski@intel.com>,
"Ciechanowski, Ed" <ed.ciechanowski@intel.com>,
"linux-raid@vger.kernel.org" <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>,
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Subject: Re: Auto Rebuild on hot-plug
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 23:46:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BB12DDF.4090303@anonymous.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e9c3a7c21003291541x229ce7e6m1666cff1ec57fa95@mail.gmail.com>
On 29/03/2010 23:41, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 3:36 PM, John Robinson
> <john.robinson@anonymous.org.uk> wrote:
[...]
>> OK, to
>> some extent that's me being stupid, but at the same time I correctly hooked
>> up the first 5 SATA ports to the hot-swap chassis and would want them
>> considered the same group etc.
>
> This kind of situation is where an option-rom comes in handy i.e. the
> platform firmware knows to boot from a defined raid volume. However,
> it comes with quirky constraints like not supporting > 2-drive raid1.
> But I see your point that it would be nice to at least have the option
> auto-grow raid1 boot arrays.
As it happens this was on an Intel-chipset board with ICH10-R and option
ROM, and I would have used IMSM if RHEL/CentOS had supported it at the
time, so I'm following IMSM support developments closely.
Cheers,
John.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-29 22:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-25 0:35 Auto Rebuild on hot-plug Neil Brown
2010-03-25 2:47 ` Michael Evans
2010-03-31 1:18 ` Neil Brown
2010-03-31 2:46 ` Michael Evans
2010-03-25 8:01 ` Luca Berra
2010-03-31 1:26 ` Neil Brown
2010-03-31 6:10 ` Luca Berra
2010-03-25 14:10 ` John Robinson
2010-03-31 1:30 ` Neil Brown
2010-03-25 15:04 ` Labun, Marcin
2010-03-27 0:37 ` Dan Williams
2010-03-29 18:10 ` Doug Ledford
2010-03-29 18:36 ` John Robinson
2010-03-29 18:57 ` Doug Ledford
2010-03-29 22:36 ` John Robinson
2010-03-29 22:41 ` Dan Williams
2010-03-29 22:46 ` John Robinson [this message]
2010-03-29 23:35 ` Doug Ledford
2010-03-30 12:10 ` John Robinson
2010-03-30 15:53 ` Doug Ledford
2010-04-02 11:01 ` John Robinson
2010-03-29 21:36 ` Dan Williams
2010-03-29 23:30 ` Doug Ledford
2010-03-30 0:46 ` Dan Williams
2010-03-30 15:23 ` Doug Ledford
2010-03-30 17:47 ` Labun, Marcin
2010-03-30 23:47 ` Dan Williams
2010-03-30 23:36 ` Dan Williams
2010-03-31 4:53 ` Neil Brown
2010-03-26 6:41 ` linbloke
2010-03-31 1:35 ` Neil Brown
2010-03-26 7:52 ` Majed B.
2010-03-31 1:42 ` Neil Brown
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