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Subject: Re: vinum and hot-swapping
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>Depends on what you mean.  Vinum isn't a hardware device driver, so it
>doesn't need to understand hot swapping.  If you hot swap a drive,
>Vinum handles the resulting events correctly.

So if I have a drive fail, say in a RAID 5 configuration, I don't have to
detach it at all? Just swap them out and vinum will automatically begin
rebuilding the array? Also, what would you say the minimum processor
requirement would be? I know RAID 5 is quite taxing compared to mirroring or
plain striping.

Thanks, Mike