Re: Add a spare to raid5 array?

[Max Waterman <davidmaxwaterman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I recently had cause to do this (I had to RMA my WD2000 which would only 
work as a slave device - see previous thread). I could just replace the 
disk since it was a PATA disk and the others I have are SATA.

It worked very nicely.

I am now wondering how this 'running with spare' state compares with the 
original state (using the, now missing, disk).

Is it the same now?

Max.

Arshavir Grigorian wrote:
> John McMonagle wrote:
>
> > Can  a  spare be added to an existing raid 5 array?
> >
> > I do not see any way to do it.
> >
> > John
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> How about mdadm --add?
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> Arshavir
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