On Friday October 25, bernd-schubert@web.de wrote: > Hi, > > we have a raid5 with persistent superblock and need to replace one of the > harddisks. > > Currently 3 of 4 md-devices (each built from 5 partition of 5 disks) work fine > and have full raid5 support, but for md0 only 4 partitions are active. > > What happens if we shutdown the server and replace the faulty disk by a new > unpartitioned one ? I'm a bit worried that due to the autostart due to the > persistent superblock something could become destroyed. It should work fine. > > Actually I would prever an kernel parameter to disable raid autostart and > first partition the harddisk, but so far I havn't found something like this. > raid=noautodetect NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
