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From: John Hendrikx <hjohn@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: Another take on replacing failed raid drives
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:06:51 +0100
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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.