Re: How to handle a RAID5 arrawy with a failing drive?

Chris Murphy
2014-03-16T23:23:27Z

On Mar 16, 2014, at 5:17 PM, Marc MERLIN <marc@merlins.org> wrote:

> - but no matter how I remove the faulty drive, there is no rebuild on a
> new drive procedure that works yet
>
> Correct?

I'm not sure. From what I've read we should be able to add a device to raid5/6, but I don't know if it's expected we can add a device to a degraded raid5/6. If the add device succeeded, then I ought to be able to remove the missing devid, and then do a balance which should cause reconstruction.

https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org/msg30714.html

Chris Murphy