topic Re: hotswap disks on linux in Operating System - Linux

hotswap disks on linux

franco andrao — Tue, 06 Mar 2001 08:17:47 GMT

I need to control hotswap disks on linux redhat 7.0 but i don't find any driver or software for manage them directly in linux oS. Please reply me any information about it.
Thanks

Re: hotswap disks on linux

Tim Malnati — Tue, 06 Mar 2001 18:14:18 GMT

Disk druid has RAID support, but I've seen many posts in different forums suggesting that it's usefulness and reliability is somewhat less than most of us desire in a production environment; particularly when a disk has a problem. It will not be until the 2.4 kernel becomes mainstream that you will see such things as logical volume management and journalling come to the table as viable methods. They exist now but without RAID support.

It seems that the best solution at the moment is to use hardware based RAID/mirroring instead. There a variety of manufacturers that support Linux with both IDE and SCSI.

Re: hotswap disks on linux

Philip Tong — Wed, 07 Mar 2001 01:32:31 GMT

Try the Software-RAID-HOWTO

It's at http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/

Also visit www.linuxraid.org