[KLUG Members] any experience with Debian Sarge & Dell 39160 SCSI controller?

[Richard Harding]

On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 19:46 -0400, Michael Lueck wrote:
> On Sat, 03 Sep 2005 18:29:37 -0400, Richard Harding wrote:
> 
> >Then tear it down and make sure that the
> >hot-swap works out fine and doesn't mess up the LVM storage groups. 
> 
> aaahhh, once you merge the new drive into the stripe / array, it is in for
> keeps, you don't undo a drive add to an array without dropping the entire
> array.
By tear is down I basically mean to reinstall the whole system for test
2 where I make sure that I can do what I want with the RAID 5 with
hot-swap. The whole purpose of the RAID 5 is to have a hot-swap drive in
case of failure. If a drive fails it seems that the drive would be found
with problems, the hardware raid would start to rebuild using the
hot-swap disk and the LVM storage groups never know the difference. 

Are you talking about if I were to say "I have too many drives and I
want to remove a drive to use it in another machine"? That should never
happen that I can predict. 

Rick