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From: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>
To: Carlos Carvalho <carlos@fisica.ufpr.br>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: replace disk in raid5 without linux noticing?
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 11:08:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060422110816.A22573@cons.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17481.23502.962814.840550@fisica.ufpr.br>; from carlos@fisica.ufpr.br on Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 07:25:18PM -0300

> stop the array
> dd warning disk => new one
> remove warning disk
> assemble the array again with the new disk
> 
> The inconvenience is that you don't have the array during the copy.

Stopping the array and restarting it as readonly will give you access
to the data while that copy is in progress.

Martin
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-22 15:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-19 14:31 replace disk in raid5 without linux noticing? Dexter Filmore
2006-04-19 16:31 ` Shai
2006-04-19 17:03   ` Ming Zhang
2006-04-19 17:41     ` Brendan Conoboy
2006-04-19 18:16       ` Ming Zhang
2006-04-20 15:22         ` Gabor Gombas
2006-04-20 15:24           ` Ming Zhang
2006-04-21 18:23   ` Dexter Filmore
2006-04-21 22:25     ` Carlos Carvalho
2006-04-22 15:08       ` Martin Cracauer [this message]
2006-04-22 17:48         ` Carlos Carvalho
2006-04-23 16:43           ` Martin Cracauer

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