[Gllug] RAID Partitions

[Bruce Richardson]

On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 05:08:50PM +0100, Martin wrote:
> Hi Tethys,
> 
> On Friday, May 7, 2004, Tethys wrote:
> 
> > I'm not entirely sure what you're trying to say here. Under what
> > circumstances would you want to be accessing a RAID device when
> > your operating system isn't running?
> 
> To rebuild, recontainerise.  To add/remove hot spares.  To migrate
> from one RAID level to another.  To extend, expand or shrink an array.

Amazingly, with software RAID you can do most of this while the
operating system is running.  Still not seeing how this is unreliable
compared to hardware raid.   By the way, if you add spares while the
operating system isn't running, that isn't "hot".

-- 
Bruce

Remember you're a Womble.
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