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From: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
To: linux-raid mailing list <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Safely swapping a disk in a RAID456
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 18:28:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110930162811.GE30935@systemlinux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110930154217.GA11732@albatross.gern.madduck.net>

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On Fri, Sep 30, 17:42, martin f krafft wrote:
> Does anyone have any ideas?

Create a 2-disk Raid1 (with external metadata) containing the disk
you'd like to replace and the replacement disk.

And yes, it would be great if md provided an easier way to do this.

Andre
-- 
The only person who always got his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-09-30 16:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-30 15:42 Safely swapping a disk in a RAID456 martin f krafft
2011-09-30 16:06 ` Rudy Zijlstra
2011-09-30 17:07   ` Andre Noll
2011-09-30 16:28 ` Andre Noll [this message]
2011-10-01 14:53   ` David Brown
2011-10-01 15:51     ` Andre Noll
2011-09-30 18:02 ` John Robinson
2011-10-01  3:38   ` Danny Rawlins
2011-10-01 10:32   ` Asdo

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