Jon Nelson <jnelson-linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I was wondering about proactive drive replacement. [bitmaps, raid1 drive to replace and new drive, ...] I belive to remember a HowTo going over this list somewhere in the past (early bitmap times?) which was recommending exactly your way. > The problem I see with the above is the creation of the raid1 which > overwrites the superblock. Is there some way to avoid that (--build?)? You can build a RAID1 without superblock. regards Mario -- [mod_nessus for iauth] <delta> "scanning your system...found depreciated OS...found hole...installing new OS...please reboot and reconnect now" -- 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