Chase Venters <chase.venters@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The main idea is to not exercise the spare as much as the other disks. All Btw. you can also keep the spare-disk spinned down most of the time. You should probably just make sure to spin it up from time to time to see if it's still okay - I spin up my spares one hour per night when smartd issues short selftests and a few more hours when smartd issues long selftests. regards Mario -- <jv> Oh well, config <jv> one actually wonders what force in the universe is holding it <jv> and makes it working <Beeth> chances and accidents :) - 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
