OT: Hardware Raid 1 on linux

[JM]

hi,

how does a system on raid 1 act when one of its drive fails? Will it still 
function properly? How would I know if one of my drive fails? (without 
physically looking at it)... would linux inform me? i have a box which is not 
a hot swap capable.. if one disk fails i have to bring the system down and 
replace it with the new one.. do i have to make sure that the new disk has 
been partitioned like the one w/c ill be replacing? or will i just make a 
filesystem similar to the one ill be replacing...

TIA
jm


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