Re: Linux supports hot-swappable hardware? [was Re: - Mailing list pgsql-general

scott.marlowe wrote:
> I've found that while it's a little harder to hot swap individual disks in
> linux using sw RAID, the ability to make the raid behave exactly as I want
> is worth it.  Having lost a RAID5 set to a hw controller that simply had
> the cable to two drives come loose but refused to accept them back into
> the RAID5 after that without formatting them first, I'm no longer as wild
> about hw raid controllers as I once was.

It seems that RAID controllers seem to be as likely a failure point as
disk drives.

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