From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Neil Brown Subject: Re: Re-arranged Drives in MDADM? Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:40:51 +1100 Message-ID: <20100129204051.320d1fa2@notabene> References: <20100128213924.GA1664@cthulhu.home.robinhill.me.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20100128213924.GA1664@cthulhu.home.robinhill.me.uk> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Robin Hill Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:39:24 +0000 Robin Hill wrote: > If you really want the two swapped (not sure why - any failure will > cause this to change anyway), you can fail & remove sdd2, then re-add it > after the recovery to sdc2 has completed. This won't stop the array > from running, but does leave you at risk of total failure until the > rebuild completes. Or possibly shut down, physically swap the devices, and the start up again. NeilBrown