From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Keith Keller Subject: Re: Hot replacing device in RAID 6 Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2014 11:30:08 -0700 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 2014-10-05, Patrik Horn=EDk 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 --=20 kkeller@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html