Malcolm Herbert wrote:
> I have a host with three 120G internal disks and have a RAID 1 mirror
> set up which autoconfigures at boot to be the root device.
> 
> I've added the third disk as a hot spare but I find that this
> information isn't retained if the machine is rebooted for any reason and
> I have to manually add it again.
> 
> If it were not an autoconfig RAID set I'd fix the problem by tweaking
> my /etc/raid0.conf, but I'm not sure how to do it in this case ... any
> ideas?

Set up a three-way mirror.  Having a hot spare sitting around isn't as useful.

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-Chuck