Martin Cracauer (cracauer@xxxxxxxx) wrote on 22 April 2006 11:08: >> stop the array >> dd warning disk => new one >> remove warning disk >> assemble the array again with the new disk >> >> The inconvenience is that you don't have the array during the copy. > >Stopping the array and restarting it as readonly will give you access >to the data while that copy is in progress. Yes but then you could just switch it to read-only without stopping. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html