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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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  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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