On 11/04/97 07:02:23 you wrote:
We have a bunch of filers sitting idle waiting for some back-ordered components, so I've taken the opportunity to "stress" them and see what breaks. ;-) On a quiet filer (no exports), I started with a two-disk configuration (it doesn't seem to mind having only one parity and one data disk) and hot-plugged four more drives in rapid succession without a `raid swap'.
The usual warnings on the first write to a new disk were logged, but then the filer complained about all three SCSI buses (only 9a was in use at the time). Beyond that there were no other difficulties.
Of course, you may have just been lucky. Under different circumstances or configurations it could very easily hang or crash your filer. Don't try this at home, folks (well, at least not until it's supported). You'll note that it had to reset the adapater and the bus to try and regain a sense of sanity.
Bruce