* Add a spare to raid5 array? @ 2005-03-10 1:25 John McMonagle 2005-03-11 20:41 ` Arshavir Grigorian 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: John McMonagle @ 2005-03-10 1:25 UTC (permalink / raw) To: linux-raid Can a spare be added to an existing raid 5 array? I do not see any way to do it. John ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: Add a spare to raid5 array? 2005-03-10 1:25 Add a spare to raid5 array? John McMonagle @ 2005-03-11 20:41 ` Arshavir Grigorian 2005-03-12 0:22 ` Max Waterman 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: Arshavir Grigorian @ 2005-03-11 20:41 UTC (permalink / raw) To: John McMonagle; +Cc: linux-raid John McMonagle wrote: > Can a spare be added to an existing raid 5 array? > > I do not see any way to do it. > > John > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html How about mdadm --add? Arshavir ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: Add a spare to raid5 array? 2005-03-11 20:41 ` Arshavir Grigorian @ 2005-03-12 0:22 ` Max Waterman 0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Max Waterman @ 2005-03-12 0:22 UTC (permalink / raw) To: linux-raid I recently had cause to do this (I had to RMA my WD2000 which would only work as a slave device - see previous thread). I could just replace the disk since it was a PATA disk and the others I have are SATA. It worked very nicely. I am now wondering how this 'running with spare' state compares with the original state (using the, now missing, disk). Is it the same now? Max. Arshavir Grigorian wrote: > John McMonagle wrote: > >> Can a spare be added to an existing raid 5 array? >> >> I do not see any way to do it. >> >> John >> - >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > > How about mdadm --add? > > Arshavir > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
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