From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe Subject: Re: Bug with RAID1 hot spares? Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:41:59 +0200 Message-ID: References: <200610202046.43033.chase.venters@clientec.com> <453EC0C4.2040006@tmr.com> <200610242344.13576.chase.venters@clientec.com> Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Chase Venters 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 -- Oh well, config one actually wonders what force in the universe is holding it and makes it working chances and accidents :)