* Another take on replacing failed raid drives
@ 2010-03-24 17:06 Bill Davidsen
2010-03-26 15:06 ` John Hendrikx
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From: Bill Davidsen @ 2010-03-24 17:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Linux RAID
I stumbled on this description of replacing a drive in a raid array. I
share it because different takes on a subject are usesful, and because
he had multiple arrays using partitions of the failed drive, rather than
a partitioned array.
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=1368
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Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
"We can't solve today's problems by using the same thinking we
used in creating them." - Einstein
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* Re: Another take on replacing failed raid drives
2010-03-24 17:06 Another take on replacing failed raid drives Bill Davidsen
@ 2010-03-26 15:06 ` John Hendrikx
2010-03-26 18:59 ` John Robinson
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From: John Hendrikx @ 2010-03-26 15:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Bill Davidsen; +Cc: Linux RAID
Bill Davidsen wrote:
> I stumbled on this description of replacing a drive in a raid array. I
> share it because different takes on a subject are usesful, and because
> he had multiple arrays using partitions of the failed drive, rather
> than a partitioned array.
>
> http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=1368
>
I do that too (multiple arrays using partitions). My reason for that is
to make future upgrades less painful as it is possible to just copy and
drop one array at a time.
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* Re: Another take on replacing failed raid drives
2010-03-26 15:06 ` John Hendrikx
@ 2010-03-26 18:59 ` John Robinson
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From: John Robinson @ 2010-03-26 18:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Linux RAID
On 26/03/2010 15:06, John Hendrikx wrote:
> Bill Davidsen wrote:
>> I stumbled on this description of replacing a drive in a raid array. I
>> share it because different takes on a subject are usesful, and because
>> he had multiple arrays using partitions of the failed drive, rather
>> than a partitioned array.
>>
>> http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=1368
>>
> I do that too (multiple arrays using partitions). My reason for that is
> to make future upgrades less painful as it is possible to just copy and
> drop one array at a time.
I do that too, but my reason is that the arrays are different types. For
example, first partitions make RAID-1 for /boot, second partitions
RAID-1 or RAID-10 swap, third partitions RAID-5 or RAID-6 filesystem (or
several over LVM).
Cheers,
John.
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