From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Max Waterman Subject: Re: Add a spare to raid5 array? Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 08:22:57 +0800 Message-ID: <42323661.9000002@fastmail.co.uk> References: <422FA1F8.4020709@advocap.org> <42320266.2040901@m-cam.com> Reply-To: mwaterman@jingmei.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <42320266.2040901@m-cam.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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