OT: Hardware RAID on linux

[JM]

On Wednesday 07 July 2004 04:39, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 06:13:57PM +0800, JM wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >	I have a IBM box with 6 slots for hot swap disk. I did 3 RAID
> > 1 on those
> > disks. pair 1-2, pair 3-4 and pair 5-6. Just incase disk 2 fails do I
> > have to mkfs on the newly bought disk? or do I just insert the disk and
> > all things follow? and Is it possible to upgrade the disk space for pair
> > 5-6? if disk 5 and 6 are 32 G each.. and Ill be replacing disk 6 with
> > 100G disk.. Ill assume that data will be copied on disk 6.. after it ill
> > be replacing disk 5 with 100G.. with this do the trick?
>
> Which raid controller is running the drives?
IBM's Server RAID controller

>
> I know IBM serveraid cards will simply start a rebuild as soon as they
> see a new drive replacing a dead one.  The user sees nothing unusual.
>
> mkfs is a higher level, which doesn't apply to raid which is lower level
> (beneath the block device).
>

thanks..

btw.. have you ever tried upgrading disk capacity for raid 1?

just like what I stated above?

> Lennart Sorensen
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