From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Brown Subject: Re: [md PATCH 00/16] hot-replace support for RAID4/5/6 Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 08:38:00 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20111026014240.21110.28487.stgit@notabene.brown> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20111026014240.21110.28487.stgit@notabene.brown> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 26/10/2011 03:43, NeilBrown wrote: > The following series - on top of my for-linus branch which should appear in > 3.2-rc1 eventually - implements hot-replace for RAID4/5/6. This is almost > certainly the most requested feature over the last few years. Fantastic news - well done, and thanks for all your work (and to the other md developers too, of course). > I hope to submit this together with support for RAID10 (and maybe some > minimal support for RAID1) for Linux-3.3. By the time it comes out > mdadm-3.3 should exist will full support for hot-replace. > Hot-replace for RAID1 is surely just a normal "add", a resync, a "fail", and a "remove"? So support here should be mainly about the consistency, such as supporting the same "replaceable" tag. RAID10, I imagine, would be more complicated. mvh., David