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From: Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe <Mario.Holbe@TU-Ilmenau.DE>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bug with RAID1 hot spares?
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:41:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ehnf1n$a1m$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200610242344.13576.chase.venters@clientec.com

Chase Venters <chase.venters@clientec.com> wrote:
> The main idea is to not exercise the spare as much as the other disks. All 

Btw. you can also keep the spare-disk spinned down most of the time.
You should probably just make sure to spin it up from time to time to
see if it's still okay - I spin up my spares one hour per night when
smartd issues short selftests and a few more hours when smartd issues
long selftests.


regards
   Mario
-- 
<jv> Oh well, config
<jv> one actually wonders what force in the universe is holding it
<jv> and makes it working
<Beeth> chances and accidents :)


      reply	other threads:[~2006-10-25 10:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-21  1:46 Bug with RAID1 hot spares? Chase Venters
2006-10-23  4:13 ` Neil Brown
2006-10-25  1:41 ` Bill Davidsen
2006-10-25  4:43   ` Chase Venters
2006-10-25 10:41     ` Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe [this message]

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