From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
To: Roman Mamedov <rm@romanrm.ru>
Cc: Keith Keller <kkeller@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us>,
linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is (non-failed) disk replace possible without loosing redundancy ?
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 20:21:30 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130412202130.631011d7@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130412160124.3439ad7d@natsu>
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On Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:01:24 +0600 Roman Mamedov <rm@romanrm.ru> wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 14:52:59 -0700
> Keith Keller <kkeller@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote:
>
> > Is there any way to accomplish the same sort of
> > thing in a RAID5 or 6?
>
> There is the "want_replacement" mechanism. It exists, it works perfectly, but
> from this thread it looks like no one knows about it. Actually I am not sure
> where it is documented, try searching the mail list archives.
>
>
Checkout the devel mdadm from git://neil.brown.name/mdadm/
make man
less mdadm.man
and search for "--replace"
Requires linux-3.3 or later.
NeilBrown
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-12 10:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-11 15:07 Is (non-failed) disk replace possible without loosing redundancy ? Mihail Daskalov
2013-04-11 15:16 ` Adam Goryachev
2013-04-11 21:52 ` Keith Keller
2013-04-12 0:52 ` Sam Bingner
2013-04-12 10:01 ` Roman Mamedov
2013-04-12 10:21 ` NeilBrown [this message]
2013-04-12 15:10 ` Keith Keller
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