On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Neil Brown wrote: > On Monday March 5, ralf@xxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > Is it possible to mark a disk as "to be replaced by an existing spare", > > then migrate to the spare disk and kick the old disk _after_ migration > > has been done? Or not even kick - but mark as new spare. > > No, this is not possible yet. > You can get nearly all the way there by: > > - add an internal bitmap. > - fail one drive > - --build a raid1 with that drive (and the other missing) > - re-add the raid1 into the raid5 > - add the new drive to the raid1 > - wait for resync i have an example at <http://arctic.org/~dean/proactive-raid5-disk-replacement.txt>... plus discussion as to why this isn't the best solution. -dean - 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
