Re: Requesting replace mode for changing a disk

Goswin von Brederlow
2009-05-13T07:37:16Z

Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> writes:

> On Wednesday May 13, goswin-v-b@web.de wrote:
>> > OK, basically the same question. How does one disassemble the RAID1 array
>> > without wiping the data on the new drive?
>>
>> I think he ment this:
>>
>> mdadm --stop /dev/md0
>> mdadm --build /dev/md9 --chunk=64k --level=1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/suspect /dev/new
>> mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 /dev/md9 /dev/other ...
>
> or better still:
>
> mdadm --grow /dev/md0 --bitmap internal
> mdadm /dev/md0 --fail /dev/suspect --remove /dev/suspect
> mdadm --build /dev/md9 --level 1 --raid-devices 2 /dev/suspect missing
> mdadm /dev/md0 --add /dev/md9
> mdadm /dev/md9 --add /dev/new
>
> no down time at all. The bitmap ensures that /dev/md9 will be
> recovered almost immediately once it is added back in to the array.

I keep forgetting bitmaps. :)

> The one problem with this approach is that if there is a read error on
> /dev/suspect while data is being copied to /dev/new, you lose.
>
> Hence the requested functionality which I do hope to implement for
> raid456 and raid10 (it adds no value to raid1).
> Maybe by the end of this year... it is on the roadmap.
>
> NeilBrown

What about raid0? You can't use your bitmap trick there.

MfG
Goswin