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From: Can Jeuleers <can.jeuleers@gmail.com>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Resurrecting a Dirty RAID-5
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 08:31:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55A35B4B.9020706@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55A2EB25.10607@websitemanagers.com.au>

On 13/07/15 00:33, Adam Goryachev wrote:
> Also, for your raid1, never have a hot spare, just do this:
> mdadm /dev/mdX --grow --raid-devices=3
> Then you will always have all your data replicated on all three drives,
> so again, no hot spare required.

Never say never, as there are valid use cases for having hot spares in a
RAID1 set.

My own use case is that I want to be reasonably assured that my spare
won't fail at around the same time as the active disks (due to having
the same age and having been subjected to exactly the same workload).

  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-13  6:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-08 12:14 Resurrecting a Dirty RAID-5 jtroan
2015-07-08 13:19 ` Phil Turmel
2015-07-09  2:57   ` jtroan
2015-07-12  5:57     ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2015-07-12 15:01       ` jtroan
2015-07-12 22:33         ` Adam Goryachev
2015-07-13  6:31           ` Can Jeuleers [this message]
2015-07-13  7:15             ` Adam Goryachev

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