At 12:47 PM 10/9/00 -0400, Todd C. Merrill 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 two
shelves 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?
My bad. If an 18GB drive fails and there's an 18GB hot spare, it'll always use it.
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