Re: dmraid rebuild status

Hi Anthony,

with kind help by Intel we're making progress in this area,
but we don't have a hard schedule for a release yet.

Functionality will support rebuilding on Intel Software RAID initially.
Rebuild support for other metadata formats will follow.

Regards,
Heinz

On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 04:35:15PM +1030, Anthony Symons wrote:
> Hi List,
> 
> Ive seen in the archives that as of august 2007 dmraid lacks the ability
> to rebuild a drive, and still seems to. 
> 
> We have the situation that we have several new systems that will live in
> a hosting room a very long way away. They have intel sata raid disks,
> and we are running RHEL 5. 
> 
> dmraid seems to be a tidier implementation than regular linux software
> raid due to the mirror existing at boot time, and grub only needing to
> be configured once, as well as only requiring one disk of a mirror and
> not in any particular slot to boot. 
> 
> Is it possible to get an update on how the rebuild process development
> is going? We need to decide if we should ship with dmraid and hope it
> has the ability to rebuild a disk before 2 of them fail, or if we should
> look at other solutions.
> 
> Thanks,
> Anthony
> 
> 
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