From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe Subject: Re: Proactive Drive Replacement Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:40:04 +0200 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Jon Nelson wrote: > I was wondering about proactive drive replacement. [bitmaps, raid1 drive to replace and new drive, ...] I belive to remember a HowTo going over this list somewhere in the past (early bitmap times?) which was recommending exactly your way. > The problem I see with the above is the creation of the raid1 which > overwrites the superblock. Is there some way to avoid that (--build?)? You can build a RAID1 without superblock. regards Mario -- [mod_nessus for iauth] "scanning your system...found depreciated OS...found hole...installing new OS...please reboot and reconnect now"