[TriLUG] Raid gurus?

[Cristobal Palmer]

Did you look at
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO-1.html#ss1.4 already?

If a raid array is degraded by the complete loss of a drive, it
(software raid as described in the howto) won't automatically restore
it after it is reconnected.

see http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO-6.html#ss6.3 for
info on how to simulate a failure.

We have a talk on LVM available in our archives, too. You might be
interested in doing raid + LVM.

http://www.trilug.org/talks/2005-10-raid/md-lvm-presentation

Peace,
CMP

On 3/14/06, WA Brown <brownwa at ftc-i.net> wrote:
> I have read some about Raid. Please explain what happens with Raid
> 1(mirroring). Does it do this automatically or something has to be done for
> the working drive to take over? What would happen if I disconected one of
> the drives in a Raid1 config? Would the other drive automatically take over?
> After the disk is put back in will the Raid update the drive to match the
> first one?Automatically?
>
>
> WA Brown
>
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