If there is a 18GB drive available (or for that matter 2/4/9/etc.) The filer will take the appropriate drive size spare to rebuild that drive. In your example:
I've got a filer with a shelf of 36's (one RG/volume) and twoshelves of 18's (one RG/volume); each RG has a hot spare.
The following would happen:
1) 18GB drive fails; the filer grabs the 18GB spare 2) 36GB drive fails; the filer grabs the 36GB spare 3) 18GB drive fails and rebuilds to the 18GB spare, you then lose another drive, the filer will grab the only remaining spare, the 36GB drive.
I hope that clears things up.
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-----Original Message----- From: Todd C. Merrill [mailto:tmerrill@mathworks.com] Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 9:48 AM To: Jamey Maze Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: mixing 18GB and 36GB drives
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Jamey Maze wrote:
At 11:24 AM 10/9/00 -0400, Todd C. Merrill wrote:
I've got a filer with a shelf of 36's (one RG/volume) and twoshelves of 18's (one RG/volume); each RG has a hot spare. What I do
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If you have an 18GB drive fail and there are only 36GB hot spares, the filer will automatically take a 36GB drive and begin rebuilding, but it
What happens when there is both a 36 GB and an 18 GB hot spare available? Is is a crapshoot?
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