From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robin Bowes Subject: Re: Joys of spare disks! Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 19:25:33 +0000 Message-ID: References: <42233EA8.4050508@variant.ch> <422369F0.5070404@variant.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <422369F0.5070404@variant.ch> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Nicola Fankhauser wrote: > the RAID 5 array has 8 drives. the "server" is in my basement and thus > accessible all the time. the (tested :) 9th drive is lying in my drawer > and will serve as replacement as soon as a drive dies. I hope it's enough. Is that because you can't fit it in the case with the other 8? R. -- http://robinbowes.com