RE: Removing disks from a volume

-- Mike Sphar - Sr Systems Administrator - Engineering Support Services, BOFH, GWP, MCP, MCP+I, MCSE, BFD -----Original Message----- From: Jeffrey Krueger [mailto:jkrueger@qualcomm.com] Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 10:37 AM To: Brian Tao Cc: Mike Sphar; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: Removing disks from a volume On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 11:12:14AM -0400, Brian Tao wrote: > > Indeed... recovery could be costly and/or awkward. Perhaps Netapp > would consider a "safety feature" enhancement for "vol add/create" > command where by default it will not allow a situation in which a > volume/raidgroup is left with no hot spares. Add a "-f" switch (or > whatever) to force an override. Warm fuzzy feature. :) This is a great idea. And should be only a couple line of intern-level code to implement too. -- Jeff -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Krueger E-Mail: jeff@qualcomm.com Senior Engineer Phone: 858-651-6709 NetApp Filers / UNIX Infrastructure Fax: 858-651-6627 QUALCOMM, Inc. IT Engineering Web: www.qualcomm.com