On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 07:47:13PM +0200, Matthias Drochner wrote:
> 
> Is it intended that a spare disk in a raid5 array is not
> autoconfigured?
> If yes, why not?
> And what is the canonical way to add it later? A "manual"
> "raidctl -a" invocation -- no rc.d support?

If one of the disks fails, you have to issue a raidctl command to start
reconstruction on the hot-spare anyway (it's not automatic), to doing
a raidctl -a before is not really an issue :)

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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