From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Turbo Fredriksson Subject: Re: libata hotplug and md raid? Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 13:44:46 +0200 Message-ID: <874pvawu35.fsf@pumba.bayour.com> References: <4507E2A9.7070306@emc.com> <4507E641.7090508@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4507E641.7090508@gmail.com> (Tejun Heo's message of "Wed, 13 Sep 2006 20:06:41 +0900") Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids >>>>> "Tejun" == Tejun Heo writes: Tejun> Would it be better for md to listen to Tejun> hotplug events and auto-remove dead devices or is it Tejun> something which belongs to userland? >From my perspective (User+Admin), I'd _very much_ like to have (physically) removed disks be removed by md. This would greatly help me when a disk fails on any of my systems. They are all SPARC's (with a few x86). None of which have any monitor attached. The x86's have, but that monitor is a couple of hundred meters away... So when I change drive, I first have to telnet into the terminal switch port for that machine, do the mdadm commands. Then physically change the drive. Then back to a machine and telnet back in to the machine and hot-add the disk.... Granted, it don't take that much time, but it's a couple of extra steps (literally :) that I'd prefer not to do/take... -- supercomputer toluene Mossad Semtex assassination Noriega Rule Psix cryptographic critical NORAD terrorist killed fissionable Marxist genetic [See http://www.aclu.org/echelonwatch/index.html for more about this] [Or http://www.europarl.eu.int/tempcom/echelon/pdf/rapport_echelon_en.pdf] If neither of these works, try http://www.aclu.org and search for echelon. Note. This is a real, not fiction. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/09/06/eu_releases_echelon_spying_report/ http://www.aclu.org/safefree/nsaspying/23989res20060131.html#echelon