From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk Subject: Re: Suggestion for hot-replace Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 16:31:45 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <10107277.2.1353857505404.JavaMail.root@zimbra> References: <1759500.SiuUO4mi0r@workstation-home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1759500.SiuUO4mi0r@workstation-home> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Tommy Apel Hansen Cc: Linux RAID Mailing List List-Id: linux-raid.ids > Hello, personally I would vote for an option to rotate spares into an= d > array > like Peter suggests, keeping a drive idle doesn't guarrantee that it'= s > actually operational. Only problem with this, is if you do it frequently, it'll degrade perfo= rmance. Btw, is there a way to replace a drive without failing one? In RAID-5, = a common issue is to have a failed drive and then find bad sectors on a= nother. In this setting (and possibly others), it'd be good to have md = replace the drive while still active (like what can be done in ZFS). --=20 Vennlige hilsener / Best regards roy -- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk (+47) 98013356 roy@karlsbakk.net http://blogg.karlsbakk.net/ GPG Public key: http://karlsbakk.net/roysigurdkarlsbakk.pubkey.txt -- I all pedagogikk er det essensielt at pensum presenteres intelligibelt.= Det er et element=C3=A6rt imperativ for alle pedagoger =C3=A5 unng=C3=A5= eksessiv anvendelse av idiomer med xenotyp etymologi. I de fleste tilf= eller eksisterer adekvate og relevante synonymer p=C3=A5 norsk. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html