From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martin Cracauer Subject: Re: replace disk in raid5 without linux noticing? Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 11:08:16 -0400 Message-ID: <20060422110816.A22573@cons.org> References: <200604191631.04305.Dexter.Filmore@gmx.de> <200604212023.30855.Dexter.Filmore@gmx.de> <17481.23502.962814.840550@fisica.ufpr.br> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline 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 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Carlos Carvalho Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids > 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 -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ FreeBSD - where you want to go, today. http://www.freebsd.org/