On Sun, 2007-07-01 at 12:12 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > On Sun, 01 Jul 2007 15:08:24 +0300 > Gilboa Davara <gilboad@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > You'll just need manually remove the old driver from the array and add > > the new one. > > I have an Intel SS-4000E fileserver. It is Linux-based, and it does hot drive > swapping all by itself with no manual-anything required on a drive change. > > I wonder if that functionality could be/should be added to the base kernel, or > at least Fedora? It obviously can be done.... > At least on the SCSI/SATA controllers that I use, the new disk get enumerated up-ward (on a 4 disk system, if I remove sdb and insert a new drive, it'll become sde). As such, I need to remove sdb from the array and hot-add sde once it is inserted. - Gilboa
