From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ming Zhang Subject: Re: replace disk in raid5 without linux noticing? Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:03:42 -0400 Message-ID: <1145466223.8608.84.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <200604191631.04305.Dexter.Filmore@gmx.de> Reply-To: mingz@ele.uri.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Shai Cc: Dexter Filmore , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 18:31 +0200, Shai wrote: > On 4/19/06, Dexter Filmore wrote: > > Let's say a disk in an array starts yielding smart errors but is still > > functional. > > So instead of waiting for it to fail completely and start a sync and stress > > the other disks, could I clone that disk to a fresh one, put the array > > offline and replace the disk? > > Hi, > > Why can't you just mark that drive as failed, remove it and hotadd a > new drive to replace the failed drive? because background rebuild is slower than disk to disk copy, since his disk is still fully functional. > > Shai > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html