Re: replace disk in raid5 without linux noticing?

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Am Mittwoch, 19. April 2006 18:31 schrieb Shai:
> On 4/19/06, Dexter Filmore <Dexter.Filmore@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > Let's say a disk in an array starts yielding smart errors but is still
> > functional.
> > So instead of waiting for it to fail completely and start a sync and
> > stress the other disks, could I clone that disk to a fresh one, put the
> > array offline and replace the disk?
>
> Hi,
>
> Why can't you just mark that drive as failed, remove it and hotadd a
> new drive to replace the failed drive?

Well, resync stresses the other disks a lot. If that can be avoided, I'd 
rather do so.

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