Re: [tlug] How to proceed with RAID drive failure

[Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com>]

2011/7/13 Attila Kinali <attila@example.com>:

> That's the one of the two big disadvantages of software RAID

What's the other? Speed?

> There is no automagic reconstruction, because the RAID system does not
> know whether a drive will end up in the RAID or whether it will be
> used for something else.

This is also true of hardware RAID (except for stand-alone storage
boxes) in that you have to add the drive to the RAID in some sort of
BIOS or by using a CLI tool to instruct the controller to use the
disk.

Or am I missing something?

Cheers,
Josh