Subject: Re: hot swap devices for RAIDframe?
To: Greg Oster <oster@cs.usask.ca>
From: Rasputin <rasputin@idoru.mine.nu>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 09/11/2002 14:30:46
* Greg Oster <oster@cs.usask.ca> [0921 14:21]:
> Rasputin writes:

> > As far as I can make out, the 'hot-standby' features on RAIDframe
> > are pretty useless without these, as you can't  replace the spare drive 
> > without rebooting the server anyway.....
 
> Not quite... The hot spare buys you a bit of time to schedule the downtime/
> reboot.

Ahh - good point. 

Think I'll just suck it and see, I have a 20Gb disk here full of Civ3,
and my copy of Win2k is only stable on even numbered months, so I may
as well play around with raidframe before asking more dumb questions.

Thanks!

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