From: Keith Keller <kkeller@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Hot replacing device in RAID 6
Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2014 11:30:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <gaf8gbxi4k.ln2@goaway.wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAAOsTSmn3MDn-a6usUTpmBObwYngvFNNRUXXF6zhmDKyUTHU_w@mail.gmail.com
On 2014-10-05, Patrik Horník <patrik@dsl.sk> wrote:
>
> - We discussed couple of years ago hot replacing the drive. I see it
> is now supported in mdadm. Is it rock stable and can be used on
> production data?
I have used replace a handful of times with great success and no
problems. I have not had to shut down the array during the rebuild
operation, however. I suspect (but have no direct evidence) that a
clean shutdown should be fine. I used kernel 3.9 from ELRepo for
the replace.
--keith
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-05 18:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-05 16:36 Hot replacing device in RAID 6 Patrik Horník
2014-10-05 16:46 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2014-10-05 18:30 ` Keith Keller [this message]
2014-10-06 13:30 ` Patrik Horník
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