From: David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Safely swapping a disk in a RAID456
Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2011 16:53:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <j679h5$g42$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110930162811.GE30935@systemlinux.org>
On 30/09/11 18:28, Andre Noll wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 30, 17:42, martin f krafft wrote:
>> Does anyone have any ideas?
>
> Create a 2-disk Raid1 (with external metadata) containing the disk
> you'd like to replace and the replacement disk.
>
> And yes, it would be great if md provided an easier way to do this.
>
That would be "hot replace", which is quite high up on the md/mdadm
"things to do" list.
<http://neil.brown.name/blog/20110216044002#2>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-01 14:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-30 15:42 Safely swapping a disk in a RAID456 martin f krafft
2011-09-30 16:06 ` Rudy Zijlstra
2011-09-30 17:07 ` Andre Noll
2011-09-30 16:28 ` Andre Noll
2011-10-01 14:53 ` David Brown [this message]
2011-10-01 15:51 ` Andre Noll
2011-09-30 18:02 ` John Robinson
2011-10-01 3:38 ` Danny Rawlins
2011-10-01 10:32 ` Asdo
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