Brave Dave
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php/topic,51075.msg258621.html#msg258621
Thanks for the pointer.
My Understanding is that they used sme to install a new machine and it boots - and I agree with that
My test here is that a disk can fail, and I can continue. SME8's RAID could tolerate this, but I found a .. unreliability.. unless I wrote the bootloader manually using grub
I can't actually verify this because I just crashed the system, I'll try this again
This is a new system, I'm just trying to understand what's going on. I'll update the forum when the system is rebuilt and I've pulled a disk.
For the record
- Install SME with : Raid5
- Allow raid to stabilize, pull disk 1 and reboot
I don't know how to build SME 9 with a hot spare, it builds it with 75% disk space (i.e. 4 x 3TB disks deliver 9TB of space, SME 8 would deliver 50%). So I build on 3 disks and add the spare manually ..
to my thinking - pulling the disk is the same as a disk failure. SME8 Raid5 would send an email (you could actually pull 2 disks if you knew which ones to pull), rebuild the array using the hot spare and continue, and I think SME9 will too, but I failed to test this successfully so far, and I think it is because the boot record isn't written to the subsequent disks - perhaps