From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robin Hill Subject: Re: Safe disk replace Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 18:12:52 +0100 Message-ID: <20120904171252.GA8544@cthulhu.home.robinhill.me.uk> References: <20120904041447.GB14445@onthe.net.au> <5045D7D9.9000108@hesbynett.no> <20120904153342.GA26999@cthulhu.home.robinhill.me.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="4Ckj6UjgE2iN1+kY" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Mikael Abrahamsson Cc: Robin Hill , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids --4Ckj6UjgE2iN1+kY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue Sep 04, 2012 at 06:34:39PM +0200, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > On Tue, 4 Sep 2012, Robin Hill wrote: >=20 > > I'm currently upgrading my RAID-6 arrays via hot-replacement. The > > process I followed (to replace device YYY in array mdXX) is: > > - add the new disk to the array as a spare > > - echo want_replacement > /sys/block/mdXX/md/dev-YYY/state >=20 > What kernel version are you using? >=20 3.4.9 at the moment. A quick search on the list suggests that this functionality went in at 3.3 though. Cheers, Robin --=20 ___ =20 ( ' } | Robin Hill | / / ) | Little Jim says .... | // !! | "He fallen in de water !!" | --4Ckj6UjgE2iN1+kY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlBGNpQACgkQShxCyD40xBJFUACgqF1JfnrU6D1jDRrQZAKEriEF eeAAoMErYTXWpckMcjNOgF1WVxLw5Wrr =rzsw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --4Ckj6UjgE2iN1+kY--