Re: Fast RAID rebuild?

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On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Warren Young wrote:

> danci@agenda.si wrote:
> >
> > Is there a way to quickly add the disk back to array without resyncing
> > - something like 'mdadm --unfail'? :)
>
> md is right not to trust the state of the replaced disk.  Just in order
> to get to the mdadm point, you have to boot up, which means files have
> changed on the live disks relative to the one that was temporarily
> missing.  You'd risk massive corruption by forcing it to accept the new
> disk without rebuilding the array.

I thought it shouldn't work and I said so to the guy asking me... But I
just asked to see if *maybe* it is possible somehow.

Thanks for the answer,

   D.

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