From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brad Campbell Subject: Re: Kernel 3.7.9 RAID6 hot replace success Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2013 11:33:16 +0800 Message-ID: <5136B8FC.5010904@fnarfbargle.com> References: <30532376.12.1362508455226.JavaMail.root@zimbra> <7qli0axdgh.ln2@goaway.wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <7qli0axdgh.ln2@goaway.wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Keith Keller Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 06/03/13 10:21, Keith Keller wrote: > On 2013-03-05, Brad Campbell wrote: >> >> I do keep a permanent spare drive, but with 3 arrays I manually allocate it in the rare event it is required. This drive had not failed out of the array, so the spare sat idle until I proactively replaced the dodgy drive.-- > > Are you using the spare-group attribute of arrays in mdadm.conf? No, have not got that advanced yet. I just keep on top of the monitoring e-mails and manage things manually. Thanks for the reminder though. I do need to have a look at that a bit closer when I get some more time. Would not have helped in this application though. Regards, Brad